Remove Duplicates
Follow the below steps to extract unique items from a list by removing duplicates:
Step 1: Copy the entire data from column “A” to Column “C”.
Step 2: Go to Data >> Click “Remove Duplicates” – to pop up the Remove Duplicates dialogue box.
Step 3: Make sure In the Remove Duplicates Dialogue box is selected, “My data has headers” and “Customer”. Then press “OK”.
Excel will pop up below the message box, Press “OK” (Image 1). You can see the unique list of customers in column “C” (Image 2).
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How to Extract Unique Items From a List in Excel
Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool widely used for data manipulation and analysis. Extracting unique items from a list is a common task in Excel that involves identifying and removing duplicates, leading to cleaner and more accurate data. We often need to report Unique customers/products/items from a given data for data analysis. In this article, we explore different approaches in Excel to list the unique items from a column.
This lesson explains various techniques for pulling a distinct or unique list from an Excel column. This article also describes how to eliminate duplicates from a range. One of the most frequent data-processing tasks in Excel is this one.
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