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    Question Duplicates Conditional Formatting

    I need the cells in a column (Range) to highlight if they are duplicate numbers only and ignore any text. I tried =countif(A2:A10,A2)>1 and then formatted it to highlight red just to see it highlight duplicates and all it did was highlight every cell within that range red. So what formula would I use in conditional formatting to highlight only numeric duplicates?


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    Re: Duplicates Conditional Formatting

    Hi,

    Try this formula..
    =IF(MAX(COUNTIF(F5691:F7688,F5691:F7688))>1,"Duplicates","No Duplicates")

    The range inside the brackets refers the range you need to check for dupes.

    shad

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    Re: Duplicates Conditional Formatting

    Jay,

    any chance you could post a data sample in an Excel workbook to go with your formula? Otherwise, how are we to determine what the result should be?

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    Re: Duplicates Conditional Formatting

    =and(isnumber(a2),countif($a$2:$a$10,a2)>1)
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    Re: Duplicates Conditional Formatting

    Quote Originally Posted by martindwilson View Post
    =and(isnumber(a2),countif($a$2:$a$10,a2)>1)
    Awesome! Worked perfectly. Thanks!

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