Remove duplicates with the Remove Duplicates command. Removing duplicates in Excel is often just three or four clicks away. The Data tab carries a Remove Duplicates icon right on the ribbon. To use this command: Click anywhere within the dataset where you’d like Excel to delete duplicates. Learn how to find and remove duplicates, count unique values among duplicates, and use the new unique function.At the end, I cover how to use Excel for fre.
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Sample 1: Delete duplicate items in a single list
The following sample macro searches a single list in the range A1:A100 and deletes all duplicate items in the list. This macro requires that you do not have empty cells in the list range. If your list does contain empty cells, sort the data in ascending order so that the empty cells are all at the end of your list.
Sample 2: Compare two lists and delete duplicate items
The following sample macro compares one (master) list against another list, and deletes duplicate items in the second list that are also in the master list. The first list is on Sheet1 in the range A1:A10. The second list is on Sheet2 in the range A1:A100. To use the macro, select either sheet, and then run the macro.
How to remove both duplicate rows in Excel?
Sometimes, you may merge two lists from two files into one column of the worksheet, after merging the data, there are some duplicate values are displayed. But, now, you would like to remove both the duplicate records which including the original one, and leave only the unique values that do not have any duplicates at all as following screenshot shown. This article, I will talk about some quick ways for solving this task in Excel.
Remove both duplicate rows in Excel with Kutools for Excel
Remove both duplicate rows in Excel with helper column
In Excel, you can create a formula in a helper column, and then filter by this new column to filter all the duplicate values and delete them at once. Please do with following steps:
1. Enter this formula: =IF(COUNTIF($A$1:$A$14,A1)=1,0,1) into a blank cell besides your data, B1 for example, and then press Enter key.
Note: in the formula, $A$1:$A$14is the original data range you want to remove the duplicates, and A1 is the first cell in your data range. You can change them to your need.
2. Then select cell B1, and drag the fill handle down to the cells that you want to contain this formula, and you can see all the duplicate cells are displayed as the number 1, and unique cells are displayed as the number 0, see screenshot:
3. And then click Data > Filter, and a drop down list button appears in cell B1, see screenshot:
4. Then click the drop down list button and only check the number 1 under the Select All option, see screenshot:
5. And all the duplicate values are filtered out, see screenshot:
6. (1.)If you want to remove the values, you can just press the Delete key to remove all of them, and only leave the unique values as following screenshot shown:
(2.) If you want to remove the entire duplicate rows, select the visible entire rows, and choose Delete Row from the right clicking menu, and only the unique rows are kept. See screenshots:
7. After removing the duplicate records, you can delete the contents in column B as you need.
Note: If there is a unique value in your first row, after filtering, it will be locate there as well, when you delete the filtered duplicate values, please skip this row.
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Remove both duplicate rows in Excel with Kutools for Excel
Here also is handy tool--Kutools for Excel, with its Select Duplicate & Unique Cells feature, you can finish the following operations quickly and easily:
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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as this:
1. Select the data range that you want to use.
2. Click Kutools > Select > Select Duplicate & Unique Cells, see screenshot:
3. In the Select Duplicate & Unique Cells dialog box, choose All duplicates (Including 1 st one) under the Rule section, then click Ok > OK to close the dialogs, and all the duplicates have been selected at once, you can press Delete key to remove them, see screenshots:
Note: If you need to remove the whole rows of the duplicate values, please check Select entire rows in the Select Duplicate & Unique cells dialog box, and all the duplicate rows are selected immediately, then click Home > Delete > Delete Sheet Rows, and all the duplicate rows will be removed.
Demo: Remove both duplicate rows in Excel with Kutools for Excel
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