Remove Duplicate Entries in Excel

[BuckWeet]

I have 2 columns, column A and column B.

Column A is a manufacturer part#
Column B is a description of that part#

I have this below that works fine, but I need it to either delete the full row instead of the cell in colum A, or to like lock the information in column B to column A.

Can anyone help?



Sub DelDups_OneList()
Dim iListCount As Integer
Dim iCtr As Integer

' Turn off screen updating to speed up macro.
Application.ScreenUpdating = False

' Get count of records to search through.
iListCount = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:A100").Rows.Count
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Select
' Loop until end of records.
Do Until ActiveCell = ""
' Loop through records.
For iCtr = 1 To iListCount
' Don't compare against yourself.
' To specify a different column, change 1 to the column number.
If ActiveCell.Row <> Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(iCtr, 1).Row Then
' Do comparison of next record.
If ActiveCell.Value = Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(iCtr, 1).Value Then
' If match is true then delete row.
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(iCtr, 1).Delete xlShiftUp
' Increment counter to account for deleted row.
iCtr = iCtr + 1
End If
End If
Next iCtr
' Go to next record.
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
Loop
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
MsgBox "Done!"
End Sub

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Well, if what you have works for you, all you need to do is add whats in red below:

Sub DelDups_OneList()
Dim iListCount As Integer
Dim iCtr As Integer

' Turn off screen updating to speed up macro.
Application.ScreenUpdating = False

' Get count of records to search through.
iListCount = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:A100").Rows.Count
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Select
' Loop until end of records.
Do Until ActiveCell = ""
   ' Loop through records.
   For iCtr = 1 To iListCount
      ' Don't compare against yourself.
      ' To specify a different column, change 1 to the column number.
      If ActiveCell.Row <> Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(iCtr, 1).Row Then
         ' Do comparison of next record.
         If ActiveCell.Value = Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(iCtr, 1).Value Then
            ' If match is true then delete row.
            Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(iCtr, 1).[red]entirerow.[/red]Delete [green]'xlShiftUp[/green]
               ' Increment counter to account for deleted row.
               iCtr = iCtr + 1
         End If
      End If
   Next iCtr
   ' Go to next record.
   ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
Loop
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
MsgBox "Done!"
End Sub

You can also get rid of the "xlshift..." since deleting an entire row really gives excel no choice but to shift up.

Hope that helps,
John

 

[BuckWeet]

simple enough


thanks very much


BuckWeet

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Happy to help