Another Stupid Excel Question

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

On #2, I think this will work:

1. Highlight the column you want to use use as the key (if it needs to be some combination of columns, the easiest thing is to probably create a new column that simply concatenates the columns into a single value.

2. Go to Data --> Filter --> Advanced Filter. There should be a checkbox on that for something like "Unique values only" which should filter out the duplicates.

If you want the then truly have the dupes gone, highlight the visible cells with your filtered data and hit alt-; (alt and semicolon) which copies visible cells (and not the hidden ones in between), go to a separate worksheet and paste it in. Then you can delete or stop using the first worksheet.

This worked like a charm - thank you!

I also didn't know about the copying only visible cells - that was a great tip as well!