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Excel Help! Eliminating all duplicates

KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
edited December 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
So I hit a snag working on an excel spreadshet for work.

A report gets outputted everyday that I clean up. The problem is that due to processing time, the cleaning up won't reflect on the next day's report, meaning that apart from any new data from that day, there's also all the old date from the day before.

Is there any way to eliminate the old date from the report? I have all the data from the previous day, so I thought pasting that into the new report and then filtering by unique data would do the trick, but that only does it so same data only appears once. I'm trying to completey eliminate off the report.

Thanks!

Kyougu on

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  • DeebaserDeebaser on my way to work in a suit and a tie Ahhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    goto Data
    then filter
    then Advanced Filter
    click 'unique records only'
    copy+paste into a new spreadsheet :)


    edit: wait, wut?
    these items have some sort of timestamp that is preventing a straight removal of dupes?

    Have you tried Access? MAX out the timestamp and select distincts?

    Deebaser on
  • FunkyWaltDoggFunkyWaltDogg Columbia, SCRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    So you've got data that includes a date column and you want to eliminate everything that isn't from today? Excel has an IF function you could try.

    IF(logical test,[value if true],[value if false])

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