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Editing database of 25000 Names and Addresses
Good morning, I am wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of where to start in removing (nearly) duplicate rows from a names and addresses database? Customers have registered wit...
Yes it can be done. In the attached file you can see the steps i've applied from sheet1 to sheet8.
=COUNTIFS($A$2:$A$19,A2,$B$2:$B$19,B2,$C$2:$C$19,C2)You can try this formula for the attached example. If the result is greater than 1 the dataset for first name, last name and postal code appears more than once. You can adapt the ranges of the formula according to your requirement.
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Thank you for taking the time to reply.
That would work to identify the duplicates - thank you - but then I will need to delete the duplicates/triplicates etc. Do you think this is possible?Yes it can be done. In the attached file you can see the steps i've applied from sheet1 to sheet8.
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Thank you so much for your help and I am so sorry to trouble you again but I am stuck at the FILTER FOR GREATER THAN 1 stage and can't get that to work. Are you able to point me in the right direction, please?
Thank you 😃
