Pwning lame ass dupes in excel
February 12, 2008
Well a friend wrote some bitching code. So we thought we should share.
‘much faster dup remover but has dependencies and preparations:
‘1. there must not be over 500 dups of a certain thing, this will only
‘ remove up to 500 dups of each item, must run again if more
‘2. you are required to order the table based on column 1
‘3. column 1 is the only field checked
‘4. only deletes the cell instead of row to keep in order.
‘5. re-sort table based on column 1 and remove all rows with empty first cell
‘6. add THEEND to first cell of a row at the bottom so dup checker
‘ will stop once it gets there
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Dim x As Long
Dim y As Long
For x = 1 To 59999
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(x, 1).Select
If Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(x, 1).Value = "THEEND" Then
MsgBox "Done!"
Exit Sub
End If
If Not x = 59999 Then
For y = (x + 1) To (x + 500)
If Not Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(y, 1).Value = "" Then
If Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(y, 1).Value = Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(x, 1).Value Then
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(y, 1).Value = ""
DoEvents
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(x, 1).Select
End If
End If
Next y
End If
Next x
MsgBox "Done!"
End Sub
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