Move all highlighted duplicate names plus social security numbers to another sheet

Dave thanks a lot for your help man. However, the code you send me generates an error.

"Run-time error '9'
Subscript out of range."

And when I try to degug, it selects the code: cel = j(i, 1) & j(i, 2)

I don't get it at all.
thanks for your help and time

How about this?

Thanks again for the fast reply man.
It works but there are some problems.

1. it looks as if it only finds the first set of duplicates and if i ad more duplicates in the rows it generates runtime error.

2. the code should move the records to the 2nd sheet and not copy it.

3. another error is when the names and last names are duplicates but not the Social Security Number. or when Social Security Number is duplicate and not the names.
(i know that the Social Security Number can't be duplicates in reality but I'm just testing.)

4. should i sort the rows alphabetically before running the macro or not?

Once again, thanks a ton for all your help man, I really need to get this going....thanks

hi there Jindon and thanks for your post.

I can't see your code. its password protected. can you please provide me the password so i can see what its doing?

I need to insert the code into my main sheet and I can't do it this way.

thanks for your help man.

the sheet is the result of merging 2 sheets.
1 sheet had no highlights and the other one had lots of highlighted rows.

we need to merge the 2 sheets and than do the following.

1. comparing the highlighted with the non-highlighted ones.

2. if we find a record that exist in highlighted and in non-highlighted and are exactly the same (same first name and Social Security Number) than move the highlighted record (row) into another sheet.

3. if the names are the same but SSN is not the same, jump over that, (do nothing and go to next record).

4. if the SSN is the same and name is not, again jump over that as well.

5. if any row is missing name or SSN, again jump over that row and go to next row.

this is what im trying to achieve and I hope you can help.

Thanks a ton man, i really really appreciated what you doing.
Regards, Mel Shad

Originally Posted by Mel Shad

hi there Jindon and thanks for your post.

I can't see your code. its password protected. can you please provide me the password so i can see what its doing?

I need to insert the code into my main sheet and I can't do it this way.

thanks for your help man.

Seems working?

Here's the code.

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thanks for your help Jindon, but your code doesn't work.

it looks like a tough problem to solve.

this is what I'm trying to do:

1. comparing the highlighted with the non-highlighted ones.

2. if we find a record that exist in highlighted and in non-highlighted and are exactly the same (same first name and Social Security Number) than move the highlighted record (row) into another sheet.

3. if the names are the same but SSN is not the same, jump over that, (do nothing and go to next record).

4. if the SSN is the same and name is not, again jump over that as well.

5. if any row is missing name or SSN, again jump over that row and go to next row.

this is what im trying to achieve and I hope you can help.

I will include a new file with more duplicates and missing data in it so you guys can work your magic easier.

thanks again to all you guys out there who tried to help me out. thanks a ton

Working perfectly to me

Hello all

I must say you guys are all the best there is.
All of you really did a great job and I have to thank each and every one of you guys that posted and helped a guy in need.

Dave, Jindon and Marvin thank you. thanks for all the time and help you gave me.
This morning I ran the code and it just worked like a dream. It took somewhere around 30 - 45 sec for it to find all the duplicates in 57291 and 7 columns and move them to another sheet. Is that a long time or not, I just have no idea. never done anything like this before. And don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining in any way, just wanted you guys to know how fast or slow your code was in the real world.

Anyways, just wanted to thank you all one more time for all the help.
Marvin, Ill test your way on my next sheet and will let you know the result. It will be some time in future.

All the best
Mel Shad.

Mel

Looping through the cells looking back ground color takes time.
If you can mark the row that need to be removed in one column, it will be much much faster.

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