[mso] Re: Excel 200: Finding duplicates across rows and columns?
- From: "Ray Blake" <ray@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:40:12 -0000
Robert,
You need to make a new column in H which concatenates all the others. e.g.
in H3 you have:
=A3 & B3 & C3 & D3 & E3 & F3 & G3
In I3 you need the usual COUNTIF formula to compare H3 against the length of
column H. Filter I for values higher than 1 and there are your dupes.
Ray
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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Robert Carneal
Sent: 13 March 2005 21:29
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Excel 200: Finding duplicates across rows and columns?
I have several sheets ?almost- full that is in format:
--------A----------------B----------C------------D--------------E---------
F-----------G-----
?surname, given?, birth date, location, marriage date, location, death date,
location.
As these are dates prior to 1900, the dates are in text
This information goes down until Row 65515, and then continues on again
starting with column H, and again starting with column ?O? and so on to
column number IS (eye es). I am concerned about duplicates. Is there an easy
way to find them? (There isn?t supposed to be any duplicates.) A duplicate
in this case would be defined as a person whose name, birth date, birth
location, marriage date, marriage location, death date, and death location
is the exact same as another person.
I can check for duplicates in the cell next to each other either up/down or
left/right, but that still leaves the majority unchecked for duplication.
Anyone know of a way to it against the rest of the sheet? <whew>. I hope I
am clear with that question.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Robert
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