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    Remove duplicates in a single cell

    I have about a 1000 names arranged in column A. My problem is however, each name appears twice, for example:

    Cell 1 = Adam SparksAdam Sparks
    Cell 2 = Ging FreecssGing Freecss
    Cell 3 = Steve PetersonSteve Peterson
    and so on

    I want the name to appear just once. Please help.

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    Re: Remove duplicates in a single cell

    Using formula or VBA code?


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    Re: Remove duplicates in a single cell

    Quote Originally Posted by :) Sixthsense :) View Post
    Using formula or VBA code?
    I'd prefer using a Macro, but basically anything that does the job will do.

    To add to the complication, I tried working around this using the Text to Column feature but there are people with second names and third names as well. If I use a few filters I just might be able to do this.

    For example:

    Thomas PetersonThomas Peterson
    Thomas Jeffery PetersonThomas Jeffery Peterson
    Maureen Man Lai LeungMaureen Man Lai Leung
    and so on.

    Thanks

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    Re: Remove duplicates in a single cell

    Maybe this, then Copy, Paste Special > Values.
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    Or to be safe, allow for trailing spaces
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    Re: Remove duplicates in a single cell

    Quote Originally Posted by Marcol View Post
    Maybe this, then Copy, Paste Special > Values.
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    Or to be safe, allow for trailing spaces
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    Thanks Marcol! The first formula worked like a charm! Do you mind explaining it? I'm new to all of this but I'm really into programming and I need to learn how to think like that.

    Thanks for the help, you're a life saver!

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    Re: Remove duplicates in a single cell

    Not a lot to explain, you know the string is twice as long as you need, so, starting on the left, you need to return half of the string, LEN(A1)/2.
    You could equally use RIGHT(), to return the second half. In your case it is the same as the first half.
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    This isn't programming, it's native formula.

    Excels' programming language is VBa. Code for this might look like this.
    In a standard module.
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    Re: Remove duplicates in a single cell

    Thanks Marcol.

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