How to delete unique values from a column in Excel?
Usually, most of us want to remove duplicate values from a column, but sometimes, you may want to remove the unique values which appear only one time in the column. This tutorial is talking about the tricks for you to remove unique values only from a column in Excel.
Delete unqiue values with VBA in Excel
Delete unqiue values with Kutools for Excel
Delete unqiue values with VBA in Excel
Using VBA can quickly delete all unique values from one column.
1. Press Alt + F11 to display the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the window, click Insert > Module to show a new module window, then copy the following VBA code into the module window.
VBA: Delete unique values from a column.
Sub DeleteUnique()
'Updateby20140617
Dim Rng As Range
Dim WorkRng As Range
Dim Arr As Variant
Dim Dic As Variant
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
Set WorkRng = WorkRng.Columns(1)
Set Dic = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
Arr = WorkRng.Value
For i = 1 To UBound(Arr, 1)
xValue = Arr(i, 1)
Dic(xValue) = Dic(xValue) + 1
Next
WorkRng.ClearContents
Arr = WorkRng.Value
xIndex = 1
For Each xKey In Dic.keys
xValue = Dic(xKey)
If xValue > 1 Then
For i = 1 To xValue
Arr(xIndex, 1) = xKey
xIndex = xIndex + 1
Next
End If
Next
WorkRng.Value = Arr
End Sub
4. Click OK, and all the unique values are deleted.
Delete unqiue values with Kutools for Excel
If you are not familiar with VBA, you can consider to use Kutools for Excel's Select Duplicate & Unique Cells feature to remove the unique values in Excel.
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1. Select the column you want to delete the unique values from, and click Kutools > Select Tools > Select Duplicate & Unique Cells. See screenshot:
2. In the pop-out dialog, check Unique values only and click Ok, and then exit this dialog. See screenshot:
3. Then all values appear only one time have been selected. And right-click to click Delete in the context menu. See screenshot:
4. In the Delete dialog, check Entire row, and click OK. See screenshot:
Now you can see the unique values are removed.
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Tip: If you just want to remove the cell contents, you can click Clear Contents from the context menu in step 3.
You can click here to know more information on Select Duplicate & Unique Cells.
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