{"id":6188,"date":"2017-04-26T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=6188"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:52:38","slug":"how-to-find-duplicates-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/how-to-find-duplicates-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Duplicates in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally when we have dirty data, we tend to get a lot of duplicates. But in Excel it is very easy to <strong>spot the duplicates<\/strong> for your data cleanup!<\/p>\n<p>Here is our sample list of words, you can see it has a lot of duplicates:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-1.jpg\" alt=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\" width=\"538\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-1.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-1-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I explain how you can do this below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"after-post-box\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-BEK9IsY46M?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\"><a class=\"IRPP_minimalist icon-download button small\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-leadbox=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates.xlsx\" data-leadbox-id=\"147284833f72a2:12f08263ab46dc\"><span class=\"ctaText px-3 text-capitalize\">Download excel workbook<i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"postTitle px-3\">How-to-Find-Duplicates.xlsx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\">\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 1:<\/strong> <\/span>Select your list of words \/ data:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-1.jpg\" alt=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\" width=\"538\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-1.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-1-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 2:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Go to <strong>Home &gt; Conditional Formatting &gt; Highlight Cells Rules &gt;\u00a0Duplicate Values<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone wp-image-6192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-2.jpg\" alt=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\" width=\"760\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-2.jpg 973w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-2-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-2-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 3:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0You can select the formatting that you want. For our example, we selected <strong>Green Fill with Dark Green Text.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>OK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-3.jpg\" alt=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\" width=\"378\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-3.jpg 378w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-3-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You will now see the magic happen, <strong>all of the duplicate values<\/strong> are now highlighted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/find-duplicates-in-excel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in your Excel<\/a> worksheet!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-4.jpg\" alt=\"How to Find Duplicates in Excel\" width=\"537\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-4.jpg 537w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-Find-Duplicates-4-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/100-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5924 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/530x300-Pivot.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/530x300-Pivot.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/530x300-Pivot-300x170.jpg 300w\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally when we have dirty data, we tend to get a lot of duplicates. But in Excel it is very easy to spot the duplicates for your data cleanup! Here is our sample list of words, you can see it has a lot of duplicates: I explain how you can do this below: \ufeff Download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[35,6,7,10],"tags":[244,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}