We’ll base a conditional formatting rule on column H. You could stop here or apply a new conditional format based on the Excel formula in column I to highlight duplicates as follows: ...

A video demonstration is available at the bottom of this article. Note that the walk-through and video were made using Microsoft Excel 365 for Pcs. Other versions of Excel may work differently.

Step 1: Select the portion of your data where you want to locate duplicates. In our example, we're selecting our entire table. Note that conditional formatting won't work if you are using pivot ...

To pinpoint duplicate entries, apply Excel's conditional formatting feature: Open the Excel worksheet containing the data in question. Select the column or range you want to inspect for duplicates.

Next, we’ll use a custom conditional formatting rule to find duplicates when the built-in rule isn’t adequate. I’m using Excel 2016 (desktop) on a Windows 10 system, but these rules are ...

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Excel offers several built-in conditional formatting rules you can apply to your data. (Click image to enlarge it.) We’ll demonstrate using Excel for Windows under a Microsoft 365 subscription.

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells.