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Gemma Telfer
Dec 17, 2019Copper Contributor
Remove Duplicate values but only from one set of data
Hi I am trying to compare one set of data with a second which may contain new entries. I am looking to remove the duplicates (I know there will be some but the data is about 8,000 rows) but only...
Riny_van_Eekelen
Dec 18, 2019Platinum Contributor
Gemma Telfer Not sure if I understand exactly what you want, but the picture below demonstrates the VLOOKUP function. You can use it to determine if an entry in one list occurs in another. The lists do not have to sorted.
In this simplified example, I want to find the entries in Data 2 that do not occur in Data 1, being the ones with #N/A. From here you can decide what to do with these. You can sort column D and delete the entries that are not #N/A (thus keeping new entries) or you can filter the #N/A's and copy/paste them to a new list with the new entries. But that's where I'm not sure what you want/need.