» Find duplicates items in combine columns in Microsoft Excel
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-------------------------------------------- Dates in column A Text in Column B -------------------------------------------- 03/10/2003 | AAA 03/15/2003 | BBB 03/20/2003 | CCC 03/25/2003 | AAA 03/30/2003 | BBB 04/04/2003 | CCC 03/25/2003 | AAA 03/30/2003 | BBB 04/04/2003 | CCC 03/25/2003 | AAA 03/30/2003 | BBB 04/04/2003 | CCC Enter the formula : =A1&B1 to cell C1 and copy / paste the formula to cells C2:C12 Enter the formula : =IF(COUNTIF($C$1:C1,C1)>1,"Duplicate","Unique") to cell E1 and copy / paste the formula to cells E2:E12

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Finding Duplicates in combined Columns
AlbertWells
A great concept that works well! You will need to copy and paste values only in the E column, however to sort the dublicates lists for deletion...

