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    Delete rows based on duplicate column values?

    Hi there and thanks in advance for any help.

    How do you delete entire rows based on duplicates in certain columns? I want to search for duplicates in column C and D and then delete entire rows where this occurs. Example, in the sheet below I want to delete row number 4. Obviously we are talking about sheets where there are thousands of rows. Need a quick way to either isolate or auto delete these rows please.

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    Re: Delete rows based on duplicate column values?

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    Re: Delete rows based on duplicate column values?

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    Sorry, my fault...I actually have 5 columns A-E and it's columns D and E I want to check duplicates in. Possible to rewrite the code for me please? Thanks so much for your time!

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    Re: Delete rows based on duplicate column values?

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    Re: Delete rows based on duplicate column values?

    No problem, glad it worked for you. Thanks for the rep

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    Re: Delete rows based on duplicate column values?

    To avoid errors(matching rows that didn't get deleted) deleting rows is always done from bottom to top or in 1 go using specialcells.
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    Re: Delete rows based on duplicate column values?

    Quote Originally Posted by gmr4evr1 View Post
    No problem, glad it worked for you. Thanks for the rep
    I need to modify this a bit. I realized I need to go through the results instead of deleting the rows straight away. Now I need to do the same thing but instead of it auto deleting the rows I need to put a value 1 in column F if there is a row match in columns D and E. This will allow me to then sort the whole sheet by column F and I can go through the results to then delete the rows I don't want manually.

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    Re: Delete rows based on duplicate column values?

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    Re: Delete rows based on duplicate column values?

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    Pure brilliance!!

    (The 1 got input into column G rather than column F but it's all good!)

    Thanking you kindly.

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