How to Remove Duplicates in Excel (6 Easy Steps with Video Tutorial)

In this article, you will learn the simplest way to remove duplicate values in Excel.

Removing duplicate values using the ‘Data’ ribbon in Excel

There are many ways to remove duplicates in excel, such as the below:

1. ‘Data’ ribbon

2. Conditioning Formatting

3. Sort and Filter function

4. Using COUNTIF formula

5. Pivot Table

Using the ‘Data’ ribbon is the quickest and easiest way to remove duplicates in Excel.

How to remove duplicates in Excel? (6 easy steps with video tutorial)

Follow this step-by-step guide, also demonstrated in the video below.

Step 1: Select the range of data from which you wish to remove duplicate values

Step 2: Click on the ‘Data’ ribbon in the Excel toolbar

Step 3: Within ‘Data Tools’, click on ‘Remove Duplicates’

Step 4: Click on ‘Continue with the current selection’ and then select ‘Remove Duplicates’

Step 5: Uncheck the ‘My data has headers’ option if the selected data has no headers

Step 6: Excel displays a pop-up message on the number of duplicate and unique values identified. Click on ‘OK’.

Note: This function is not case sensitive. For example: ‘Tom’ and ‘TOM’ will be identified as duplicate values.

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To learn how to remove duplicates on Google Sheets, check out our article ‘How to Remove Duplicates in Google Sheets’.

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