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dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


neogeo0823 posted:

I'm looking through it right now and I'm not seeing anything to highlight duplicate entries. Am I missing it?

There isn't one natively, because Google Sheets is a bit lightweight; scripting is an option (why a Googler used the thread to push add-ons without actually linking to a relevant one I have no clue).

Also LibreOffice is an option and doing that works sort of the same (easier to web-search for conditional formatting; about the same but no obvious "quick" options, you'd probably use the conditional formatting window).

dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 16:29 on May 12, 2015

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LLJKSiLk
Jul 7, 2005

by Athanatos

neogeo0823 posted:

I'm looking through it right now and I'm not seeing anything to highlight duplicate entries. Am I missing it?

I think if you add a column, you can use something similar to this:

code:
To determine duplicates, add a B column and place this formula in B2

 =countif(A$1:A1;A2)>0

Copy the formula for all B cells that are adjacent to A cells containing data. A TRUE value in the B column tells you that the value in the A column is a duplicate. 

neogeo0823
Jul 4, 2007

NO THAT'S NOT ME!!

Sir Unimaginative posted:

There isn't one natively, because Google Sheets is a bit lightweight; scripting is an option (why a Googler used the thread to push add-ons without actually linking to a relevant one I have no clue).

Also LibreOffice is an option and doing that works sort of the same (easier to web-search for conditional formatting; about the same but no obvious "quick" options, you'd probably use the conditional formatting window).

It turns out there's an add-on in Google Sheets called Remove Duplicates which does exactly what I want. It takes a sheet, or a selection from a sheet, finds either just duplicates, just uniques, or duplicates/uniques as well as the original entry, and then gives you choices of what you want to do to them. You can highlight them, copy/paste them somewhere, delete them, and a couple other things. This is actually quite handy, now that I've tried it out.

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