I was working with Sandra the other day on a project that involved an Excel spreadsheet and about 2400 lines of data. I had to check to see if I had any duplicate values in one of the columns. Since I’m not the sharpest tool in the drawer when it comes to Excel, I asked her if she could help me somehow find potential duplicates instead of me scanning through the list manually. I was duly embarrassed when she showed me just how simple that is… 🙂
Here I have a spreadsheet where I want to find duplicate random numbers. I highlight the Random Number column and select Home > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules > Duplicate Values:
The Duplicate Values dialog panel defaults to formatting cells that are Duplicates, and it will use Light Red Fill with Dark Red Text:
If desired, I can also choose different formatting:
When I click OK, my duplicate random number cells show up in the selected formatting color option:
If I want to filter things down to *only* show the duplicate rows, I can click the dropdown menu next to the Random Numbers column header, and Filter by Cell Color:
And there you have it!
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