Excel offers a feature that will scan for and remove duplicated values.

Important things to know: When you remove duplicate values, only the values in the range of cells or table are affected.

Because you are permanently deleting data, its a good idea to copy the original range of cells or table to another worksheet or workbook before removing duplicate values.

When you remove duplicate values, you permanently delete duplicate values.

They are theress a column for the first name and a column for the last name.

Click in a cell in the table containing duplicates (to make it the active table).

Click once in the upper left cell of a range where you want the deduplicated values (often this would be a new table you have set up for this purpose).

Command-v or Edit Paste Match Style to paste the values with duplicates removed.

SG tell application Numbers tell front documents active sheet tell ( first table whose selection ranges class is range ) set vv to rowss cellss value end tell end tell end tell set distinctFirstLast, newList to, repeat with r from 1 to vvs length set fl to vvs item rs item 2 vvs item rs item 3 if fl is not missing value, missing value then if fl is not in distinctFirstLast then copy fl to distinctFirstLasts end copy vvs item r to newLists end end if end if end repeat set pasteStr to set text item delimiters to tab repeat with r from 1 to newLists length set pasteStr to ( pasteStr newLists item r as string ) return end repeat set the clipboard to pasteStr -- return pasteStr -- can uncomment this line for testing.

For the example, the new columns are both inserted after column B, and become the new columns C and D.

Will also work with LN in column A, FN in column B): AB Enter the formula in column C in the first row containing data, then fill down to the rest of the new column.

John Smith becomes JohnSmith OR Smith John becomes SmithJohn formula method: Using the new column C as the test-values column, enter the formula below in column D, in th first data row (assumed to be row 2).

D2: COUNTIF(C1:C2,C2) Fill down to the last row in the table.

The formula counts the number of appearances of the name in this row in all rows above this row and this row itself.

Before sorting, you need to convert this calculated value to a fixed value.

To do that: With all cells in this column (D) selected: Copy Go Edit Paste Formula Results.

This replaces the formulas with the most recently calculated results.

Scroll to the bottom of the table, and select all rows where the count in column D is greater that 1, then Delete Rows, using either the Table menu or the contextual menu opened by clicking the v that appears when you bring the mouse pointer to one of the selected rows.

When the duplicate rows have been deleted, the new columns (C and D) may also be selected then deleted.

Script method: SGIII has written an AppleScriptAutomator service to do this task, and will likely post that within the next 24 hours.

If you are doing this a lot (as opposed to it being just an occasional task) then I can post a customized script.

SG.

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