ProTip: use Excel’s built in ability to remove duplicates whenever you need to clean up data.
Removing duplicates from data is a common task. Excel provides a range of options to remove duplicates from your data. You can combine those features with formulas and other tools to complete whatever processing you’ve got to do.
There are a handful of reasons to remove duplicates:
To remove duplicates, select your data and go to the Data tab. From there is the Remove Duplicates button. It will open up to allow you to select the columns which should be considered in the is it a duplicate? logic. By default all of the columns will be selected which means that a given row will be deleted if all of its columns match all of the columns of another row. If you want to consider fewer columns (donw to a single one) you can start unchecking.