Hiding Data in Excel - Need help!

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This is a current spreadsheet I am working on - it is to record book sales. All the repeating data, I want to make blank until the blank areas are filled in. Is this possible? I have tried the conditional formatting and turning all repeating data to white, however that messes with the inventory count so the inventory count in the row that I am working on, doesn't change until I change it in the next row. If that makes sense. Any help is appreciated!

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Hey @Sioren ,

 

1) You can create another column to identify whether or not the number in the original column is a duplicate or not by using this formula: =IF(COUNTIF($A$1:$A1,A1)>1,"Duplicate","No")

 

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2) You can then select this column, use the Find option in the Home Tab to delete all the Values that say "Duplicate":

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 3) This should you a list of cells that contain the value "Duplicate". Select all of them by holding down the shift key and clicking the last row. 

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4) Then Press Close and all the cells that contain the value "Duplicate" should be highlighted

5) Finally, press Delete and Hide column E.

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@Sioren 

 

You may hide repeating items with conditional formatting and count only unique inventory numbers with one of the formulas from here https://exceljet.net/formula/count-unique-values-in-a-range-with-countif