Generating sequence numbers from cluster values [VLOOKUP to the rescue]
Last night I got an email from Joshua, one of our readers with the subject – Hard Excel problem. Hard?!?, at this stage of summer, the hard problems seem to be (in no particular order),
- Lack of good quality mangoes to eat
- Intense heat and humidity
- Lack of good quality mangoes to eat
Yes, I like mangoes.
Any how, back to Joshua’s email, So I got curios and read it. He is facing a curious problem.
Remove duplicate combinations in your data [quick tip]
By now, we know how to remove duplicates from data. You can use the Remove Duplicates button to do that.
But do you know that we can use remove duplicates button to get rid off duplicate combinations too?
Remove duplicate combinations – Tutorial
To remove duplicate combinations in your data, just follow below 4 steps:
- Select your data
- Click on Data > Remove Duplicates button
- Make sure all columns are checked
- Click ok and done!
See this demo:
Check if 2 ranges have same values (set equality problem)
Hello folks,
Time for another homework problem. Assuming you have 2 ranges of values like below, how do you check if both of them have same set of values?
Check if a list has duplicate numbers [Quick tip]
A while ago (well more than 3 years ago), I wrote about an array formula based technique to check if a list of values have any duplicates in them.
Today, lets learn a simpler formula to check if a list has duplicate numbers.
Assuming you have some numbers in a range B4:B10 as shown below, we can use MODE + COUNTIF formulas to check if there are any duplicate values in a list.
Excel Links – Next Dashboard Contest Edition
Almost an year ago, we had a memorable dashboard contest on Sales Dashboards. We got 32 beautiful, outstanding, well crafted entries and it was a lot of fun learning new tricks & meeting new members of our community. I am planning to have one more dashboard contest and I need your help.
I need you to suggest a topic for the contest (optional: and give some sample data)
Just drop a comment with your suggestions (and point to source data if any). We will have a dashboard contest on one of those topics.
Read the rest of this post to get some useful Excel related links.
Remove duplicates & sort a list using Pivot Tables
Removing duplicate data is like morning coffee for us, data analysts. Our day must start with it. It is no wonder that I have written extensively about it (here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). But today I want to show you a technique I have been using to dynamically extract and sort […]
Even Faster Way to Compare 2 Lists in Excel [Quick Tip]
Last week we discussed a fun and easy way to compare two lists of data in excel using conditional formatting. In that post, Artem commented, The quickest way to find all about two lists is to select them both and them click on Conditional Formatting -> Highlight cells rules -> Duplicate Values (Excel 2007). The […]