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I am trying to merge 2 property-value files using excel to sort filter and remove the duplicates from the merge.
however it seems that to remove the duplicates, it uses case insensitive comparison to detect them. Is
there a way to force it to use case sensitive comparison to remove only those exact duplicates?
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Hi, look CPearson solution
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/deleting.htm
go to the middle of the page where it says Delete Duplicate rows
hope this helps
.. > Is there a way to force it to use case sensitive comparison to remove only those exact duplicates?
This formula will flag out uniques based on case sensitive, exact matches (FIND is case sensitive)
Assume your source data running in A2 down
Put in B2: =IF(A2="","",IF(SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(FIND(A2,A$2:A2)))>1,"","x"))
Copy down. Autofilter on col B, choose "x" - these will be the uniques
Copy the filtered set of uniques, paste special as values elsewhere