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Old 06-27-2004, 08:10 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I'm stuck. I could easily do this in php&mysql, but i can't, i have to do it in excell. what i've got is a very simple workbook with 13 months of data.......all that's in this is 1 coloum with about 3000-5000 records. only 15-16 digit numbers.....i've put them in order and have wrote a quick if statment in the next coloum saying that if this record, say A2=A1 then print DUPLICATE, if not print good. That works well, now what i want to do is completely delete each row that b5(or whatever row) says duplicate. anyone know a quick easy way about this?

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Shan....


i know this isn't in MS Office section but, noone goes there, that's why it's here....hahaha
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Old 06-30-2004, 06:29 AM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Copy the column, paste it into microsoft access as a table, design a select query on the table, include the 1 field, click the 'group by' button, switch to datasheet view, copy the contents, paste back to excel.

Et voila, 1 de-duped list of numbers.

If you have to stay in excel you will find it a lot harder....
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Old 07-07-2004, 02:08 AM   #3 (permalink)
 
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well, that'd work but i just took a different route. i used the advanced filter feature and selected unique records only....
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