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In this guide, weu2019ll provide step-by-step walkthroughs and examples for all the different ways you can highlight duplicates in Google Sheets. Duplicate data compromises the quality and accuracy of your performance metrics, decision-making, and other mission-critical efforts.
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Ho to Highlight Duplicate in Google heet 0 HAR G N k s A Overvie The folloing i a comprehenive guide on ho to highlight duplicate in Google heet. Duplicate data compromie the qualit and accurac of our performance metric, ale dahoard, deciionmaking, and other miioncritical e몭ort. That’ h ou need an e몭cient a to highlight and remove duplicate in Google heet. In thi guide, e’ll provide teptep alkthrough and example for all the di몭erent a ou can highlight duplicate in Google heet.
Tale of Content 1.Overvie 2.Prerequiite for Highlighting Duplicate in Google heet 3.5 Wa to Highlight Duplicate in Google heet a.1. Highlight duplicate in a ingle column .2. Highlight duplicate in multiple column c.3. Highlight duplicate ro d.4. Highlight duplicate uing added criteria e.5. Highlight duplicate uing the UNIQU function Prerequiite for Highlighting Duplicate in Google heet efore attempting to highlight duplicate in Google heet, tr to enure the folloing: liminate other conditional formatting rule currentl applied to the cell range ou’re targeting Make ure ou don’t have miing pace in our earche Do not elect header hen highlighting duplicate ith Arra Formula Avoid highlighting peci몭ed duplicate value if necear. elect the cell ith the conditional formatting rule. Then click the trah icon under Format > Conditional formatting. Here’ another pitfall to atch out for. Google heet can fail to highlight duplicate due to extra pace character. Thi i hen there are extra pace — trailing or leading pace — around the text in one cell ut not in another. Thee extra pace ithin the cell can reult in mied duplicate, ince heet earche for an exact match. You can remove extra pace in our cell uing the TRIM or CLAN function in Google heet. dealing ith thee potential iue up front, ou can ave ourelf ome headache don the road. 5 Wa to Highlight Duplicate in Google heet In Google heet, ou can ue cutom formula paired ith conditional formatting to highlight duplicate. efore e tart, let’ pull a ample aleforce dataet for our example into Google heet uing Coe몭cient. To learn ho to import realtime data from aleforce to
heet uing Coe몭cient. To learn ho to import realtime data from aleforce toheet uing Coe몭cient. To learn ho to import realtime data from aleforce to Google heet in one click ith Coe몭cient, read our aleforce to Google heet log. We’ll ue thi aleforce dataet to perform the teptep alkthrough elo. 1. Highlight duplicate in a ingle column Highlighting duplicate in a ingle column i ver traightforard. uppoe ou ant to highlight the duplicate name in the Deal Oner Firt Name column.
Firt, elect the name in the dataet (excluding the header).Firt, elect the name in the dataet (excluding the header). Click Format in the top menu and elect Conditional Formatting from the dropdon.
Click Add another rule on the Conditional format rule ide panel.Click Add another rule on the Conditional format rule ide panel. Under Format rule, click Format cell if… and elect Cutom formula i from the drop don menu.
nter the COUNTIF formula under the Format cell if… 몭eld. Check out our Ultimatenter the COUNTIF formula under the Format cell if… 몭eld. Check out our Ultimate Guide to COUNTIF in Google heet log if ou ant to learn more aout thi function. =COUNTIF($C$3:$C$18,C3)>1
Then pecif the formatting for the duplicate cell — in other ord, ho the illThen pecif the formatting for the duplicate cell — in other ord, ho the ill appear on the preadheet — etting the Formatting tle option. Click Done. You ill ee the duplicate name highlighted in the column range in our et color and format.
Conditional formatting i alo dnamic. It mean ou can change the data in an cellConditional formatting i alo dnamic. It mean ou can change the data in an cell ithin our range, and the formatting ill update automaticall. For intance, if ou remove one of the to uz from the column range, Google heet ill automaticall top highlighting uz ince the name i no longer duplicated. You can remove the highlight on a duplicate value electing the cell (or cell) and deleting the conditional formatting rule.
You can alo clear the formatting ithout deleting the rule. elect our cell or cellYou can alo clear the formatting ithout deleting the rule. elect our cell or cell range, click Format on the top menu, and chooe Clear formatting from the dropdon. 2. Highlight duplicate in multiple column You can alo 몭nd duplicate in multiple Google preadheet column uing conditional formatting. For example, let’ a ou have three column, all containing duplicate data.
Follo the ame tep from the previou example. elect the data range (excludingFollo the ame tep from the previou example. elect the data range (excluding header) and click Format > Conditional formatting. elect Add another rule on the Conditional format rule ide panel. Doule check the cell range. Make ure it include all the column ou ant to 몭nd duplicate in.
Click the Format cell if… option and elect Cutom formula i.Click the Format cell if… option and elect Cutom formula i. nter the folloing formula in the deignated 몭eld. =COUNTIF($A$3:$C$18,A3)>1
et our preference in the formatting tle ection for highlighting duplicate data andet our preference in the formatting tle ection for highlighting duplicate data and click Done. The duplicate name that appear acro thee three column are no highlighted.
3. Highlight duplicate ro It’ a it trickier to highlight duplicate ro. For intance, in the aleforce dataet elo, ro ix and eight are duplicated. All the correponding cell contain the ame data. To identif duplicate ro, ou hould execute the tep from the previou example, ut ith modi몭cation to the Cutom formula i tep: elect our data range, ut not the header ro Open the Conditional formatting option and the Conditional format rule ide panel from the Format top menu Click Add another rule elect Cutom formula i from the Format cell if…dropdon lit Input the folloing formula in the Value or formula 몭eld: =COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA($A$3:$A$18&$$3:$$18&$C$3:$C$18),$A3&$3&$C3)>1 Chooe our preferred formatting tle and color for our highlighted duplicate Click Done You hould ee ro ix and eight highlighted, ince thee contain repeating cell value.
A quick explanation of thi method: The conditional formatting formula in thi example ork the ame a in the other. The formula highlight duplicate cell ithin a column. Hoever, the formula comine all the ro’ content and make a ingle tring for each ro. Thi part of the formula: ARRAYFORMULA($A$3:$A$18&$$3:$$18&$C$3:$C$18) create an arra of tring here the cell’ content ithin a ro are comined. Concatenation i performed uing the amperand. The COUNTIF formula ue the arra. The condition i a concatenated tring ith all the value in a ro, appearing like thi: $A3&$3&$C3 The arra i eentiall a columntpe contruct. The COUNTIF function check the numer of time the comined tring repeat in the arra. The end reult: the formula highlight all the duplicate ro in the peci몭ed cell range. 4. Highlight duplicate uing added criteria You can ue added criteria in Google heet to highlight duplicate data. For example, ou can con몭gure our heet to onl highlight duplicate for peci몭c value. Your ntax hould include the tar operator (“*”) to tell the COUNTIF function to ue oth criteria. The complete ntax ill look like thi: =(COUNTIF(Range,Criteria)>1) * (Ne Condition) ) Let’ look again at the dataet from the previou example. There are to emploee named Jaco ith di몭erent Deal ID.
In thi cae, e ill highlight the duplicate emploee, and alo add a econdIn thi cae, e ill highlight the duplicate emploee, and alo add a econd condition for the Deal ID. Firt, follo the ame tep a our previou example. When ou get to the Conditional format rule ide panel, input thi formula: =(COUNTIF($A$3:$C$18,$A3)>1) Then ou’ll need to thi formula to account for the Deal ID: Place the “*” operator after the initial formula Add the econd condition to our (COUNTIF(Range,Criteria)>1) ntax Your hole complete formula hould look like thi:=(COUNTIF($A$3:$C$18,$A3)>1)* (COUNTIF($A$3:$C$18,$C3)>1) Of coure, ou can keep 몭ne tuning our formula for the conditional format rule: Add a third criteria Place another argument after the criteria (e.g.,<5 or >0) Inert everal other “*” condition 5. Highlight duplicate uing the UNIQU function
5. Highlight duplicate uing the UNIQU function A UNIQU formula 몭nd all the unique value ithin a cell range. The function ork et ith a maller dataet. The ntax i imple: =UNIQU(Range) Let’ appl thi function to the ame dataet, o e can 몭nd unique value. elect an empt cell. Tpe in =UNIQU and include the data range ou ant to check for unique data: =UNIQU(A3:A18) The formula ill return the unique value ithin A3:A18.
UNIQU eliminate complicated formula con몭guration and provide ou ith a cleanUNIQU eliminate complicated formula con몭guration and provide ou ith a clean dataet ithout duplicate. Hoever, in more advanced duplicate ue cae, thi function alone can run into limitation. Highlight duplicate in Google heet to improve data qualit Your preadheet data impact our metric, reporting, anali, and deciionmaking at ever level. With Google heet, it’ ea to highlight and remove duplicate, improving data qualit for our uine operation. The method outlined in thi log are imple et e몭ective a to enure uperior data. Tr Coe몭cient for free toda to automaticall acce realtime, highqualit data from our uine tem in Google heet. Wait, there' more! Connect an tem to Google heet in jut econd. Get tarted Free 40,000+ uer on Google Marketplace Truted thouand of companie
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