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Excel & Sheets: Complete Guide

What Is Remove Duplicates? Remove Duplicates is a tool that finds and deletes repeated information in your data. When the same data appears multiple times—like the same customer name listed twice or the same transaction recorded repeatedly—this tool identifies those duplicates and removes the extra copies, keeping only one instance.​ Think of it like cleaning out your email inbox. If you received the same message five times, you would want to delete four copies and keep just one. Remove Duplicates does exactly this for spreadsheets, databases, and other data files.​ For example, imagine a customer list with 5,000 names where many customers accidentally appear two or three times. Manually searching for and deleting these duplicates would take hours. Remove Duplicates scans the entire list in seconds and eliminates all the repeated entries automatically.​ Why Remove Duplicates Tools Exist: The Problem They Solve Duplicate data creates serious problems across many situations, making remov...