Auto Filter Limit Question

[Minitman]

Greetings,

I have a list that has over 3800 names in it. I am trying to use Auto
Filter to go though the list an remove duplicate entries (The list
started out with a little over 16000 entries and I am now down to a
little over 3800). I have to find duplicates and get the last date
and copy it next to the first date then delete all but the first date.
I was using the Auto Filter but ran into a wall! It only shows
everything up to M's and nothing after that.

Is there a way to show all of the list?

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

-Minitman

 

[JE McGimpsey]

First, you might take a look at

http://cpearson.com/excel/duplicat.htm

for other ways to deal with duplicates.

Autofilter will only show the first 1000 entries in the dropdown. See

http://contextures.com/xlautofilter02.html#Limits

for a workaround

 

[Minitman]

Thanks for the reply.

The first is interesting and will be of use to me later . But the
second I could not get to go anywhere. It appears to be an email
address and Agent can't seem to find an article in an email address.
Is there something that I am doing wrong? How do I read this article?

-Minitman

 

[JE McGimpsey]

The second URI is not an email address - it's a web page.

you can drill down to it if you go to

http://www.contextures.com/

click on "Excel Tips", then on the "AutoFilter - Limits to Dropdown
Lists" link

 

[Minitman]

Cool workaround!

Thanks.

-Minitman

The second URI is not an email address - it's a web page.

you can drill down to it if you go to

http://www.contextures.com/

click on "Excel Tips", then on the "AutoFilter - Limits to Dropdown
Lists" link