Remove Duplicates dialog box Selected columns Copyright © 2011 by Pearson Education Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. From Skills for Success with Microsoft® Excel 2010 Comprehensive Work with Advanced Functions and Formulas | Microsoft Excel Chapter 6 More Skills: SKILL 13 | Page 1 of 3 Duplicate records might appear in a table or worksheet when a record is accidently entered multiple times. For example, a person’s name might be listed in more than one row. Duplicate records are removed using the Remove Duplicates tool. To complete this document, you will need the following file: e06_Employees You will save your document as: Lastname_Firstname_e06_Employees 1. Start Excel, and then open the student data file e06_Employees. Save the file in your Excel Chapter 6 folder with the name Lastname_Firstname_e06_Employees Add the file name in the worksheet’s left footer. Return to Normal view. 2. Select cell C1, and then display the Home tab. In the Editing group, click the Sort & Filter button arrow and then click Sort A to Z . On the Sort Warning dialog box, verify that the Expand the selection option is selected, and then click Sort. Notice that Employee ID 66— Britt Abarca—appears twice. 3. Select cell A1, and then on the Data tab, in the Data Tools group, click Remove Duplicates. Compare your screen with Figure 1. The Remove Duplicates dialog box displays. Here, you select the columns that might contain duplicate values so that you can later delete the duplicate entries. Excel CHAPTER 6 Figure 1 More Skills 13 Delete Duplicate Records