nainil
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Find and count duplicates in Excel using Macro / vba
I have an excel sheet with multiple columns. What I want to do is:
Scan Column B
Find duplicates
Highlight duplicates in Yellow (or any color)
Provide a count of the duplicate values (Yellow highlighted).
I have the below code. It highlights the cells as soon as I enter and filters duplicates.
I would want to have the filtering happen only after user clicks on a button. Ofcourse, I would like to have a count of these duplicates as well.
Scan Column B
Find duplicates
Highlight duplicates in Yellow (or any color)
Provide a count of the duplicate values (Yellow highlighted).
I have the below code. It highlights the cells as soon as I enter and filters duplicates.
I would want to have the filtering happen only after user clicks on a button. Ofcourse, I would like to have a count of these duplicates as well.
Sub ValidateData()
If (ActiveSheet.Name = "Codes") Then
MsgBox ("HHHHIII")
Sheets("Codes").Columns("B:B").Select
Selection.FormatConditions.AddUniqueValues
Selection.FormatConditions(Selection.FormatConditions.Count).SetFirstPriority
Selection.FormatConditions(1).DupeUnique = xlDuplicate
With Selection.FormatConditions(1).Interior
.PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
.Color = 65535
.TintAndShade = 0
End With
Selection.FormatConditions(1).StopIfTrue = True
' ActiveSheet.Range("Q18").HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
' ActiveSheet.Range("Q18").Value = cntDuplicates
' ActiveSheet.Range("Q18").AddComment(str + " contain duplicates").Shape.TextFrame.AutoSize = True
' str = ""
' cntDuplicates = 0
ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Select
End If
End Sub
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hi i'm using Countif Function to find out how many same records available in the Range. if any records more than 1 it will color the cell.
Example
A B
test 12
test1 2
test3
test 4
Example
A B
test 12
test1 2
test3
test 4
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This is excellent. I am trying to understand the code as to what it does and how is it getting duplicates.
I see how the counts happen (i think), but, I am not sure what you have used to find the duplicates.
The solution is terrific and i believe it works as expected, but just curious on how it works.