Comments on: Quick Way to Check for Duplicates in a Column

By: iphone_addict

iphone_addict — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:50:17 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I hope it works for columns that have strings instead of values. Will try this later.

By: Anil

Anil — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:08:53 +0000

Hi ,

With regards to “Way to Check for Duplicates in a Column “..there is another way this can be done using the “Conditional Formating ” function. From the Formating menu select “Conditional Formating” in the “Conditions ” select ‘Formula Is ” Option and enter the formula =COUNTIF($A$1:$A$50,A1)>1. Then just select the format you want the duplicates to be displayed in .

Ensure that this formation is copied to all the other vertical cells you want to chek for duplicates.

By: Kaye

Kaye — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:40:45 +0000

Thanks for the tip, this will be useful. Further, would CountIf work if I’m looking at hundreds of rows of customer order info and want to only have customer listed once with columns that include the various dates of orders. That way I don’t have to keep scrolling up and down…I don’t know that CountIf is the solution or not. Thank you.

By: john

john — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:16:12 +0000

Hi ksarda – the rank function is actually doing the ranking correctly as there is no 3rd position in your example because of the tie for the 2nd position. You would have to write a custom function to rank the values in the manner you suggest. Hope that helps…

By: ksarda

ksarda — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:42:58 +0000

Here’s a question I see often. “I’m trying to use the RANK function to sort the values in Column A, but, the problem arises when I have two or more cells with the same value. Then, the RANK also repeats some positions. For example, if I have, 50, 60, 62, 62, 67 in Column A I would get 5,4,2,2,1 in Column B. Is there a way I can get 4,3,2,2,1 ?”