Daily Archives: July 17th, 2008

This article is basically about:

how to make unique records using excel 2007; or

how to make distinct records using excel 2007; or

how to eliminate duplicate records on excel 2007

The case is, I use an excel file imported from SAP. The file contain duplicate records, meanwhile I need to clean this records so that I can a have a clean, unique records. Since I haven’t been exploring Excel 2007 a lot. I thought that there’s no way we can use Excel feature to do all the work. I almost thought that I have to do that all manually. Oh no, this can’t be good, since there was thousands of records to check.

So, I start to explore excel features, and Voila!! There it was. It was there all along. All I need to do is:

  1. Go to the Data menu (you can find it on top of Excel)
  2. Look for the Remove Duplicates function. It’s on the Data Tools group.
  3. Follow the wizard. Quite simple to understand the instructions on the wizard.

Well, I guess I need to explore Excel more :) . It can be very helpful.