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Highlight duplicate rows by grouping?

In Numbers is there any way to highlight duplicate rows that occur in a grouping.


By grouping, I don’t mean any of the built in tools for creating categories. Instead, I am referring to a column I am using for grouping data.


Example:

In the example, column B "Type" is used to group the data.

The Fruit data has the duplicate entry "Apple".

However, the "Apple" entry under "tech" wouldn't count as a duplicate, because it's part of a different group.


Is there anyway I can highlight the duplicates (in this case rows 2 & 5, and 9 & 11).


Also, can I filter it so, I only see each duplicate per a category to make them easier to delete?


Thanks!

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 24, 2020 5:36 AM

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Posted on Jul 24, 2020 8:44 AM

An alternative but similar method that does not require a column for concatenation would be the following formula:


Cell C2 =COUNTIFS(A$2:A2,A,B$2:B2,B)

fill down to complete the column


or you could get more fancy with


cell C2= IF(COUNTIFS(A$2:A2,A,B$2:B2,B)>1,"DUPLICATE","")


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Highlight duplicate rows by grouping?

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