Astute Excel: Dealing with Duplicates
Presented by David H. Ringstrom, CPA
Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, teaches you how to identify and manage duplicate data within your spreadsheets in this beneficial presentation. David covers a variety of topics, including identifying duplicate data visually by way of the Conditional Formatting feature, using a pivot table to determine how many duplicates are in a list, and applying worksheet functions like SUMIF or COUNTIF to sum or count instances of duplicates.
Topics Covered:
- Using the Reapply command to remove items that are no longer duplicated within a list.
- Using the MATCH worksheet function to identify differences between two different lists.
- Employing pivot tables to count the number of times an item appears in a list.
- Duplicating the formatting of one chart into a second chart.
- Copying dates within an Excel worksheet in the manner you want.
- Resolving situations where data appears more than once within a pivot table.
- Using Excel’s Advanced Filter feature to identify duplicates within a list.
- Eliminating duplicates from a list with just a few mouse clicks.
- Duplicating columns, rows, or cells within an Excel worksheet.
- Unlocking Data Validation cells in anticipation of protecting a workbook.
- Resolving situations where data appears more than once within a pivot table.
- Creating a Data Validation rule that prevents users from entering the same data more than once in a list.
Learning Objectives:
- Define how to apply the Advanced Filter feature and the Remove Duplicates feature.
- Identify how to use a pivot table to quickly ascertain how many times duplicates appear within a list.
- Recall how to eliminate duplicates from a list with just a few mouse clicks.