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WMGoh
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Jul 12, 2021
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Excel - How do find duplicates (without removing) from a large database? Hide unique values?

I have a huge database that I need to check for duplicates. Understand that one of the way is using conditional formatting to highlight the field (in different colours), however this doesn't work wel...
  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    Jul 12, 2021

    WMGoh 

    You may use helper column to filter duplicates/unique values. If you are on Excel 365 you may use =COUNTIFS(range, range), if not =COUNTIFS(range, cell) and Ctrl+D it down.

    Values >1 in this column indicate duplicates, use filter on all but 1.

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