How to Find and Remove Duplicate Values in a Column of a Excel Sheet?

To find duplicate values :

1. Open your Excel sheet and navigate to the worksheet containing the column with duplicate values.

2. Select the entire column by clicking on the column header. For example, if your column is in column A, click on the "A" header to select the entire column.

3. On the Excel ribbon, go to the "Home" tab and click on "Conditional Formatting" in the "Styles" group. Then select "Highlight Cells Rules" and choose "Duplicate Values" from the sub-menu.

4. In the "Duplicate Values" dialog box, you can choose how you want to format the duplicate values. The default settings highlight the duplicate values with a light red fill color.

5. Click "OK" to apply the conditional formatting to the column.

 

To remove duplicate values :

1. Select the range of cells from which you want to remove duplicates.

2. Go to the "Data" tab in the Excel ribbon.

3. Click on the "Remove Duplicates" button. This will open the Remove Duplicates dialog box.

4. In the dialog box, make sure that the check boxes next to the columns containing the values you want to check for duplicates are checked. You can also choose to remove duplicates based on multiple columns by selecting multiple check boxes.

 

5. After selecting the columns, click on the "OK" button.

6. Excel will remove the duplicate values from the selected range and display a message showing the number of duplicate values found and removed.