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Conditional Filtering: remove duplicates only when both columns are duplicates (Excel 2019)
Dear community, I have downloaded observation data of insect species and want to delete duplicates of coordinates in Excel 2019, but only if the year is the same as well. If the year of observati...
Hi Nick_S,
Fortunately this is a really easy thing to do using Excel's Remove Duplicates data tool:
- Highlight your data
- Click on Data > Remove duplicates
- Ensure year and coordinates are checked
- Click OK
Excel will automatically delete the duplicates. Please note, since Excel deletes the data, you may want to first make a copy of the sheet before using remove duplicates to preserve your original data.