How to remove duplicates and keep the lowest value in another column in Excel?
When working with datasets in Excel, you may encounter duplicate values in one column with corresponding numbers in another. In such situations, it’s often necessary to remove duplicates while retaining either the lowest or highest value from the other column. This guide outlines straightforward methods to accomplish this efficiently.
Use Remove Duplicates and a formula to delete duplicates but keep the lowest/highest value
Use Kutools for Excel to easily delete duplicates but keep the lowest/highest value
Use Remove Duplicates and a formula to delete duplicates but keep the lowest/highest value
To remove duplicate but keep lowest value, you can apply Remove Duplicates function and a formula.
1. Select and copy column A which contains the duplicate values, and paste them to another place. See screenshot:
2. Then select the values in the pasted list, and click "Data" > "Remove Duplicates", and check "Continue with the current selection" option from the popped out dialog. Click "Remove Duplicates", then in the "Remove Duplicates" dialog, check the column you want to remove duplicates from. See screenshot:
3. Then click "OK", and a dialog pops out to remind you how many duplicates have been removed, click "OK" to close it.
4. Select a cell next to the list you have removed the duplicates from, enter the following formula, press "Shift"+ "Ctrl" + "Enter" keys, and drag fill handle down to the cell you need.
=MIN(IF($A$2:$A$12=D2,$B$2:$B$12))
Now all duplicates have been removed but leaving the lowest values in another column based on the duplicates.
1. If you want to remove all duplicates but leave the highest ones, you can apply the following formula, remember to press "Shift" + "Ctrl" + "Enter" keys.
=MAX(IF($A$2:$A$12=D2,$B$2:$B$12))2. In the above formulas, A2:A12 is the original list you need to remove duplicates from.
Use Kutools for Excel to easily delete duplicates but keep the lowest/highest value
If you have "Kutools for Excel", you can quickly remove duplicates but only keep the lowest or highest value with its" Advanced Combine Rows" function.
1. Before applying Kutools, you had better to have a copy of the original data. Then select the range cells you want to remove duplicates, and click "Kutools" > "Merge & Split" > "Advanced Combine Rows". See screenshot:
2. In the "Advanced Combine Rows" dialog, select the column you want to remove duplicates from, and then click" Primary Key" to set it as primary key column, and then select the column you want to leave the lowest or highest values in, and click "Calculate" to select "Min" or "Max" as you need. See screenshot:
3. Click "Ok", then the duplicate values have been deleted but keep the lowest one.
Tip. With the "Advanced Combine Rows" of Kutools for Excel, you also can remove duplicate values and then sum numbers in another column as below screenshot shown. If you want to have a free trial of the Extract Text function, please go to free download Kutools for Excel, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.
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