Excel 2008 for Mac requires more work to remove duplicate values in a data set because of it’s lack of. Excel 2003 and Excel 2008 for Mac don’t. In my last post I used a formula and the Find box to. However, Excel 2008 for Mac has no “Find All” button in the Find box. You can’t “Find All” values of TRUE because that functionality doesn’t exist. How to Remove Duplicates in Excel 2008 Nevertheless, even if the function does not exist, I still need to know how to 2008.
First, I have to remove some duplicate values in the Weight column on. So I used the following procedure: Sort the spreadsheet in ascending order by Date.
Excel does all the hard work for you. Video Transcript Sometimes you have a large list that contains empty rows, and you need to remove these rows in order to clean up the list. A question came up on my Twitter feed this week – how to sort a list of IP Addresses in Excel. On the face of it, this should be simple. However, because Excel treats the IP addresses as text strings, not numbers, the sort order will not be correct, for example 172.24.161.200 will come before 172.24.161.8 (2 comes before 8 in an alphabetic sort). This tutorial explains how to sort a list.
Filtering for unique values and removing duplicate values are two closely related tasks because the displayed results are the same — a list of unique values. The difference, however, is important. When you filter for unique values, you temporarily hide duplicate values, but when you remove duplicate values, you permanently delete duplicate values.
A duplicate value is one where all values in the row are an exact match of all values in another row. Duplicate values are determined by the value displayed in the cell and not necessarily the value stored in the cell. For example, if you have the same date value in different cells, one formatted as '12/8/2017' and the other as 'Dec 8, 2017', the values are unique. It's a good idea to filter for or conditionally format unique values first to confirm that the results are what you want before removing duplicate values. Note: If the formula in the cells is different, but the values are the same, they are considered duplicates.
For example, if cell A1 contains the formula =2-1 and cell A2 contains the formula =3-2, as long as the value is formatted the same, they are considered to be duplicate values. If the same value is formatted using different number formats, they are not considered duplicates. For example, if the value in cell A1 is formatted as 1.00 and the value in cell A2 is formatted as 1, they are not considered duplicates. You can create a rule to color code unique or duplicate data in your sheet. This is especially helpful when your data includes multiple sets of duplicate values.
Select one or more cells in a range, table, or PivotTable report. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click Conditional Formatting, and then click New Rule. In the Style list, choose Classic, and then in the Format only top or bottom ranked values list, choose Format only unique or duplicate values.
In the values in the selected range list, choose either unique or duplicate. In the Format with list, select an option for how you want the unique or duplicate values to be formatted. Filter for unique values. Select the range of cells, or make sure that the active cell is in a table. On the Data tab, under Sort & Filter, click the arrow next to Filter, and then click Advanced Filter. Do one of the following: To Do this Filter the range of cells or table in place Select the range of cells, and then click Filter the list, in-place.
Copy the results of the filter to another location Select the range of cells, click Copy to another location, and then in the Copy to box, enter a cell reference. Note: You cannot remove duplicate values from data that is outlined or that has subtotals. To remove duplicates, you must remove both the outline and the subtotals first. Select the range of cells, or make sure that the active cell is in a table. On the Data tab, under Tools, click Remove Duplicates.
Select one or more of the check boxes, which refer to columns in the table, and then click Remove Duplicates. Excel displays either a message indicating how many duplicate values were removed and how many unique values remain, or a message indicating that no duplicate values were removed. You can create a rule to color code unique or duplicate data in your sheet.
This is especially helpful when your data includes multiple sets of duplicate values. Select one or more cells in a range, table, or PivotTable report. On the Home tab, under Format, click the arrow next to Conditional Formatting, and then click New Rule. On the Style pop-up menu, click Classic, and then on the Format only top or bottom ranked values pop-up menu, click Format only unique or duplicate values. On the values in the selected range pop-up menu, click either unique or duplicate. On the Format with pop-up menu, select an option for how you want the unique or duplicate values to be formatted.