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    String comparison

    I have used a formula to concatenate two fields. I now need to go through and see if there are any duplicates. There are 2078 rows so I do not want to do this manually.

    Any help would be appreciated,

    Dan

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    Hi,

    I would recommend in the column next to your data to have

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    and copy all the way ... to Tag all your duplicates ...

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    Good afternoon HurricaneDan

    Welcome to the forum!

    Go to the first cell in yoiur range where you have duplicates.
    Go to Format > Conditional Formatting
    Set to FormulaIs and enter this formula :

    =IF(COUNTIF($A$1:$A$100, A1)>1,TRUE,FALSE)

    Where A1 is the first cell of the range you wish to check and A1:A100 is the relevant range. Select your formatting and click OK.
    Use format painter to copy it to the end of the range. This will highlight all duplicates - NOT subsequent duplicates.

    HTH

    DominicB

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    Thank you both for your help. This is exactly what I was looking for!

    Thanks again,

    Dan

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    We are both happy to hear your problem's fixed ...

    Thanks for the feedback

    Carim

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