To pinpoint duplicate entries, apply Excel's conditional formatting feature: Open the Excel worksheet containing the data in question. Select the column or range you want to inspect for duplicates.

Microsoft Excel is perhaps the most powerful spreadsheet application you can buy. But it also has some simple functions, like finding duplicates in data.

Specify columns: Excel will prompt you to specify which columns you want to consider when identifying duplicates.

When you want to clean up data in your Excel sheets, you should first check if there are any duplicates and if so, delete them. Sometimes it's not obvious, but it's actually quite easy to do. In this ...

Duplicates in the same column are easy to find by sorting or filtering. Duplicates that span multiple columns require a bit of setup, but the solution's not difficult to implement.

How to remove duplicates in Excel for a single column When you have duplicate data that you want to remove from a single column in your dataset, start by clicking into the column you want to dedupe.

This option only appears if Excel detects data adjacent to the selected column. Uncheck all columns except the one containing the consolidated data and click "OK" to remove duplicates.

The simple Table object in Figure A duplicates a few names across four columns. Our task is to create a single list of values repeated across any two columns. We’ll start with quarters 1 and 2.