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    Question Merge (?) several contact lists (8000 contacts+) and erase duplicates

    Hey folks, I'm not quite sure if I'm in the right sub-thread, hope to get some answers here !

    I have a problem with my contact lists, can’t solve this since 2 days, already googled for hours but don’t really get an adequate answer from it.
    I’m kind of a beginner in excel so please don’t be too hard on me -.-

    I have 4 sheets/Lists, and each one has about 200 to 8000 contacts .

    Some of the contacts are either in just one of the 4 lists, some are duplicated in 2 or 3 or even in all the 4 lists.

    Now I want to merge the 4 Lists find the duplicates and erase them.

    One main problem is that some of the lists are sorted by (each column)
    Name A1 - Email B1 - Agency C1 - Position D1 - Country E1

    and some have just the first 2 or 3 informations (A1 & B1) or A1 & C1 or sometimes A1 & C1 & D1.

    So, in the end the question is how do I find the duplicates, merge each one of them if some of them happen to miss (an information) a column and erase the rest?

    Can’t really imagine myself doing it manually with 10000 contact

    Please help !! I’m really great full about any tipp !
    Thanks a lot in advance and all the best,
    Kalliope

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    Re: Merge (?) several contact lists (8000 contacts+) and erase duplicates

    Dear Kalliope, i have give solution. instead of four sheets data.
    kindly import all sheets into one sheet & create unique key & apply countif formula.
    If you unable to solved plz attach your file.


    atul


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    Re: Merge (?) several contact lists (8000 contacts+) and erase duplicates

    Hi
    It would be better to send the file!
    For removing duplicates in these kind of files there should be a similar field in all the sheets.
    The "Name" field looks is the column which you should do the process of removing duplicates on it!
    First merge the sheets and because your sheets are just 4 and that is not a lot the use copy the data (ctrl+a) and paste it in another
    sheet below each other and then from :
    Data > Data Tools > Remove Duplicates
    In the Remove Duplicates window select the column of "Name" (probably column A) and clear the check of others and that's it!
    it is the easiest way!
    For more help read and watch these :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTpnRaL71s
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbH1ZIc7j2I
    https://support.office.com/en-us/art...8-248355f10fa9
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