Sorting problems

Copper Contributor

Hello Microsoft community, 

I am working off of several different lists of names.  I need to just show the duplicate names so that I can remove them from the dbase of names. The conditional formatting will remove the duplicates, but I need to see the names.  I know that I can highlight the duplicates, but the list is over a 1000 names and I wanted to find a way to complete it sooner.  This isn’t a one time project so I would prefer to find a way that is quick and efficient if there is a way. 
thank you…..

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@KSterlinggotaquestion 

Conditional Formatting (CF) does NOT remove duplicates. It just highlights them. If you want to create a list of the duplicate names, you could use CF to find and highlight them with a color.

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Then, filter the column by that color to create a list of only the duplicate names

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Copy/paste values, transform to a Table.

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On the Data ribbon, choose Remove Duplicates to end up with a list of Names that were duplicated in the original list.

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Or, just create a Pivot Table, counting the Names in the original list. Show only Names with a count  greater than 1.

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Or, use PowerQuery. First Keep Rows / Keep Duplicates. Then, Remove Rows / Remove Duplicates.

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