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How to Remove Duplicates in Excel

In this tutorial, you will learn how to clean up your spreadsheet data by removing duplicate entries in Microsoft Excel.

Operations
5 steps 2 min Community template
1

Open the excel sheet

Select the range of the cells where duplicates needs to be removed.

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Open the excel sheet
2

Click the Data tab

Click the Data tab in the top ribbon to access data management and analysis tools.

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Click the Data tab
3

Click the Remove Duplicates button

Click the "Remove Duplicates" button in the Data Tools group on the ribbon to clean up your dataset.

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Click the Remove Duplicates button
4

Click the OK button

Click the OK button in the Remove Duplicates dialog box to confirm your selection.

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Click the OK button
5

Click the OK button

Click the OK button in the dialog box to acknowledge the message and close the window. The duplicates are removed.

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Click the OK button

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