Would anyone have a way to search an excel or text file for duplicate
entries such as 2 lines with the same email address or employee ID. I have a
file with 13000 users, 1 per line and I need to identify the duplications so
I can clean them up. I really only need to search 1 column and the
duplicates are next to each other top to bottom.

I can pull the file apart if I need to and put only the email addresses
into a text file, even that would be faster and less mind numbing than
looking at all 13000 manually...

Thanks in advance,
S-

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Sean M. Loftus
Enterprise Architect
Loftus Consulting, Inc.
www.LoftusConsulting.com
sean(removeme)@loftus.org

Re: Searching excel or txt file for duplicate entries by Gary

Gary
Thu Apr 28 15:34:09 CDT 2005

Here is an excellent site with formulas for finding duplicates.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/duplicat.htm

HTH

Gary
"Sean M. Loftus" <sean(remove me)@loftus.org> wrote in message
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> Would anyone have a way to search an excel or text file for duplicate
> entries such as 2 lines with the same email address or employee ID. I have
a
> file with 13000 users, 1 per line and I need to identify the duplications
so
> I can clean them up. I really only need to search 1 column and the
> duplicates are next to each other top to bottom.
>
> I can pull the file apart if I need to and put only the email addresses
> into a text file, even that would be faster and less mind numbing than
> looking at all 13000 manually...
>
> Thanks in advance,
> S-
>
> --
> Sean M. Loftus
> Enterprise Architect
> Loftus Consulting, Inc.
> www.LoftusConsulting.com
> sean(removeme)@loftus.org
>
>