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TheWeetek
Jul 27, 2023Copper Contributor
How to delete duplicates in two columns
Hey, may you suggest, how to delete duplicates
so, there will stay just number 4 in A column? thanks
- Patrick2788Silver Contributor
There are a few different ways to do this depending on if you go the text-manipulation route or not. Ideally, BYROW would be able to handle this, but it's limited to returning scalars.
This is my solution:
=LET( rows, ROWS(data), columns, COLUMNS(data), shuffle, LAMBDA(r, c, SMALL(INDEX(data, r, {1, 2}), c)), ordered, MAKEARRAY(rows, columns, shuffle), UNIQUE(ordered) )
- tanayprasadBrass Contributor
In Cell C1, enter the following formula and drag it down-
=COUNTIF(A:A, A1) + COUNTIF(B:B, A1)
Select the entire range of data (including the C column).
Go to the "Data" tab in the Excel ribbon.
Click on the "Remove Duplicates" button in the "Data Tools" group.
In the "Remove Duplicates" dialog box, make sure only the Column C is checked. Uncheck other columns.
Click "OK."
Now, Excel will remove duplicates based on the values in the C column.
- TheWeetekCopper Contributor
tanayprasadhey, thanks for respond, but unfortunately in this case it does this.
(if there was needed to have the numbers as before, then its not important, its for a situation, where are not predictable, what values will be in each cell.
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