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How to delete unique values from a column in Excel?

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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
3. Click Run button to run the VBA code, and a KutoolsforExcel dialog pops out for select a range to work. See screenshot:

a screenshot of deleting unique values with VBA

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 > 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:

a screenshot of deleting unique values with Kutools for Excel

3. Then all values appear only one time have been selected. And right-click to click Delete in the context menu. See screenshot:

a screenshot of deleting unique values

4. In the Delete dialog, check Entire row, and click OK. See screenshot:

a screenshot of deleting entire rows of unique values

Now you can see the unique values are removed.

a screenshot of the original data doc-arrow a screenshot of results after deleting

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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