How to find the first duplicate value in Excel column?
Here is a list with some duplicate names, can you find all first duplicate values from the list except looking up one by one manually? Actually, I have a formula can quickly identify the first duplicate values in Excel list.
Find the first duplicate value with formula
Find all duplicate values except first one with Select Duplicate & Unique Cells
Find the first duplicate value with formula
Please use below formula to find the first duplicate value in the list.
=IF(COUNTIF(A:A,A1)>1,IF(COUNTIF(A$1:A1,A1)=1,"DUPLICATE",""),"")
Press Enter key, drag fill handle down to fill this formula to cells.
Find all duplicate values except first one with Select Duplicate & Unique Cells
If you want to find all duplicate values but excluding the first duplicate, in this case, you can apply the Select Duplicate & Unique Cells utility of Kutools for Excel to handle the job.
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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:（Free Download Kutools for Excel Now!)
1. Select the list you want to find duplicates except first one, click Kutools > Select > Select Duplicate & Unique Cells.
2. In the Select Duplicate & Unique Cells dialog, check Duplicates (Except 1st one) option, you also can change the Fill backcolor and Fill font color to highlight the duplicate values.
3. Click Ok, a dialog pops out to remind you the number of selected items, click OK to close it.
Now the duplicates except first one have been selected and highlighted.
Select Duplicate & unique values
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