excel duplicates on 2 worksheets

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Guest

The situation: I have two worksheets both of which have columns named:

1) Name
2: Address
3) Post Code
4) Telephone Number

I am using the telephone number as the unique identifier as we only have to
store data 'per household' - not 'per customer'.

On the first worksheet there is a list of all the customers.
On the second worksheet there is a list of customers who wish to be taken
off our customer list.

I need to use the second worksheet to delete the customer entries in the
first worksheet.

I have tried to use the worksheets together to identify duplicates but there
seems to be a problem doing this between two worksheets.

Can anyone tell me a simp way of putting this equation into excel:

if sheet2 single telephone number = any sheet 1 telephone number
then delete customer record from sheet1.

Thanks guys!
 
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Dave Peterson

I'd add an extra column on the worksheet that should be cleaned up--not the
worksheet with all the phone numbes to delete.

=isnumber(match(d2,sheet2!a:a,0))

If there's a match, then you'll get True. No match = False.

Then apply data|Filter|autofilter and show the True's. Delete the visible rows
and then delete the helper column.

(Or sort all 5 columns (A:E) by column E and delete that group of True's.)
 
G

Guest

Functions & equations don't, by themselves, perform actions (such as delete).
They return results. The steps I'd take:
On sheet 1, in cell E2 enter the formula
=if(isna(match(d2,Sheet2!D:D,false)),"","delete!").
Copy that down (using autofill) to each row on sheet1.
Turn on autofilter (click one cell in the table then Data > Filter >
Autofilter)
Use the drop-down in E1 to select 'delete'.
Click in the first cell in column containing the word 'delete' and
ctrl+shift+down arrow to select all such cells.
Right-click and select DeleteRow.
--Bruce
 
T

Tom Ogilvy

In an adjacent column in Sheet1 in row 1 put in this formula (or adjust for
row 2 if you have headers in row 1) [assumes phone numbers are in column D
on both sheets]

=countif(D1,Sheet2!D:D)>0

then drag fill down the column. This
will produce a true in Sheet1 for a matching number in sheet2

Now in sheet 1, select this column and do Data=>Filter=>Autofilter

In the dropdown, select True

then select all the data and do Edit=>Delete

only the visible cells will be deleted

Take out the Filter by doing Data=>Filter=>Autofilter

Test this on a copy of your workbook.
 

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