You can also elect to have Excel remove any duplicate data from your spreadsheet. Use this function with caution – it's probably a good idea to back up your spreadsheet first.

Excel's XMATCH function eliminates this headache. Unlike VLOOKUP's rigid structure, XMATCH searches any array in any ...

1. Click "Data" in the top menu of the Excel window to open the Data menu ribbon. 2. Click on "Remove Duplicates." 3. A window will pop up.

Duplicate Remover for Excel goes through massive worksheets with tables up to 1 monster 1 million rows, and then finds and kills duplicate entries. Because it works right within Excel, as an add ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions.

It’s easy to find duplicates; you can filter them out of a data set or format them using a conditional format rule. What you can’t easily do in Excel is display only the duplicate records.

To return the duplicate-less data set to Excel, click Close & Load in the Close group. Doing so will create a new sheet and save the resulting data set, as shown in Figure D.