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Kirsty Lowe
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May 01, 2018
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Removing duplicates when using TEXTJOIN

Hi, I am using TEXTJOIN to being into one cell entries from a separate column, where I am ignoring empty cells and separately by &. This works fine. However, I can have duplicate values in an indi...
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  • Haytham Amairah's avatar
    Haytham Amairah
    May 01, 2018

    Kristy,

     

    I got the below formula for you thanks to this amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ2O07EB80Q!

    =TEXTJOIN(" & ",TRUE,IF(MATCH(A1:A6,A1:A6,0)=ROW(A1:A6)-ROW(A1)+1,A1:A6,""))

    Please find it in the attached file.

     

    Regards

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SergeiBaklan
Diamond Contributor
Sep 02, 2020

leo_bourikov 

As variant

=ARRAYTOTEXT(UNIQUE(FILTER(B:B,A:A=A2,"")))

 

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Mikael_Toivonen
Copper Contributor
Jan 16, 2022

This is a great answer if using a one the the more modern Excel versions. FILTER(), UNIQUE() and ARRAYTOTEXT() used in a clear, no-nonsense way.

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