Compare & Remove Rows

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Firstly, let's get the terminology right: columns are vertical, rows are horizontal. Are you simply wanting to remove the extra columns? If so, just copy and paste the first two. Or are you asking for something else? If the latter, then you are going to need to elaborate.

My apologies. That was only a 1 row example. My file has thousands of rows of data. Some have blank columns, some filled.

I want to remove the whole row in the first spreadsheet, if the first and last name appear in the second spreadsheet.

For example (from the table I put on my original post), Gillian Bristow appears in the second table, so I want to remove it from the first.

I have to have it check both first and last name as in my spreadsheet, there are multiple rows with the same Last Name.

OK - I understand. You will need VCBA for this, so I will move your thread to the correct section.

Will you please attach a sample Excel workbook? Nobody wants to have to recreate your data from scratch.

1. Make sure that your sample data are REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.

2. Make sure that your desired results are also shown (mock up the results manually).

3. Make sure that all confidential data is removed or replaced with dummy data first (e.g. names, addresses, E-mails, etc.).

4. Try to avoid using merged cells as they cause lots of problems.

Unfortunately the attachment icon doesn't work at the moment, so to attach an Excel file you have to do the following: just before posting, scroll down to Go Advanced and then scroll down to Manage Attachments. Now follow the instructions at the top of that screen.

Please pay particular attention to point 2 (above): without an idea of your intended outcomes, it is often very difficult to offer appropriate advice.

Also, please don't quote whole posts, especially when you are responding to the one immediately preceding your own - it's just clutter. It's OK to quote if you are responding to a post out of sequence, but limit quoted content to a few relevant lines that makes clear to whom and what you are responding. Thanks!

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Jindon - I think the OP might need a bit of guidance with how to implement this.

EDIT: I was wrong!

Thank you for that!

It has partly helped.

Using that, it has removed rows where there was only a LastName specified in the "To Remove" worksheet.

It hasn't removed the ones that have both LastName & FirstName completed.

Any further suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Have double checked my data, as I hadn't realised there would be blank cells before.

The LastName cell is always populated, and there are some rows where FirstName is blank

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