Microsoft Excel is perhaps the most powerful spreadsheet application you can buy. But it also has some simple functions, like finding duplicates in data. Skip to main content ...

In this article, I’ll show you how to find duplicates in Microsoft Excel. SEE: Windows, Linux, and Mac commands everyone needs to know (free PDF) (TechRepublic) ...

To pinpoint duplicate entries, apply Excel's conditional formatting feature: Open the Excel worksheet containing the data in question. Select the column or range you want to inspect for duplicates.

Begin by selecting the range of cells you wish to evaluate for duplicates. In our example, this would be column A. You can easily select the entire column by clicking on the letter A. Go to the Home ...

Excel then tells you how many duplicates it has removed. In my example, 50 appeared in the list three times, and 19 appeared twice, so Excel has removed two 50s and one 19, totaling four duplicate ...

Keeping a count of the number of duplicate entries across a column in Excel is very useful for many reasons. The first is to check for duplication, then for entries where duplication is intended ...

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If your spreadsheet has a lot of unwanted duplicate values, you're not stuck with them. You can remove them. We'll show you how to remove duplicates in Excel.