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gint32
01-13-2017, 07:54 AM
Hi People,

Happy 2017....

Can anyone help me to show only distinct rows based on 3 columns values, and also delete the rest(e.g duplicates)

please see below example columns (A,B,C)....[The real data columns that I need to work with(distinct) is actually not a,b,& c but "G,H & M". ]

The test example below would reduce to only show one value of each and delete the remaining (full Rows), no matter how long they are eg (A<>Z)

Column A B C D


08:30 - 11:30
Toms02
Nodups,01


08:30 - 11:30
Toms02
Nodups,01


08:30 - 11:30
Toms02
Nodups,01


08:30 - 11:30
Toms05
Nodups,04


08:30 - 11:30
Toms06
Nodups,05


08:30 - 11:30
Toms06
Nodups,05


08:30 - 11:30
Toms06
Nodups,05


08:30 - 11:30
Toms09
Nodups,08


08:30 - 11:30
Toms10
Nodups,09


08:30 - 11:30
Toms11
Nodups,10


08:30 - 11:30
Toms11
Nodups,10


08:30 - 11:30
Toms11
Nodups,10


08:30 - 11:30
Toms11
Nodups,10


08:30 - 11:30
Toms11
Nodups,10


08:30 - 11:30
Toms16
Nodups,15


16:15 - 17:15
Toms17
Nodups,16


13:30 - 15:30
Toms02
Nodups,01


'<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
reduced to the below


08:30 - 11:30
Toms02
Nodups, 01


08:30 - 11:30
Toms05
Nodups, 04


08:30 - 11:30
Toms06
Nodups, 05


08:30 - 11:30
Toms09
Nodups, 08


08:30 - 11:30
Toms10
Nodups, 09


08:30 - 11:30
Toms11
Nodups, 10


08:30 - 11:30
Toms16
Nodups, 15


16:15 - 17:15
Toms17
Nodups, 16


13:30 - 15:30
Toms02
Nodups, 01




Any help would be great!
Thanks in advance

I thought I could amend the following array ,that I found whilst surfing the net to suit, but I don't really understand or know enough of what its doing to amend it on my own:----


=IFERROR(IFERROR(IFERROR(INDEX($A$2:$A$20, MATCH(0, COUNTIF($D$1:D1, $A$2:$A$20)+($A$2:$A$20=""), 0)), INDEX($B$2:$B$7, MATCH(0, COUNTIF($D$1:D1, $B$2:$B$7)+($B$2:$B$7=""), 0))), INDEX($C$2:$C$12, MATCH(0, COUNTIF($D$1:D1, $C$2:$C$12)+($C$2:$C$12=""), 0))), "")

or


=IF(COUNTIFS($A$1:$A2, $A2, $B$1:$B2, $B2, $C$1:$C2, $C2 )=1, "Distinct row", "")

then use

VBA


Option Explicit

Sub deleteblanksrows()
'
' deleteblanksrows Macro
'

Dim Firstrow As Long
Dim Lastrow As Long
Dim Lrow As Long
Dim CalcMode As Long
Dim ViewMode As Long

With Application
CalcMode = .Calculation
.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
.ScreenUpdating = False
End With

'We use the ActiveSheet but you can replace this with
'Sheets("MySheet")if you want
With ActiveSheet

'We select the sheet so we can change the window view
.Select

'If you are in Page Break Preview Or Page Layout view go
'back to normal view, we do this for speed
ViewMode = ActiveWindow.View
ActiveWindow.View = xlNormalView

'Turn off Page Breaks, we do this for speed
.DisplayPageBreaks = False

'Set the first and last row to loop through
Firstrow = .UsedRange.Cells(1).Row
Lastrow = .UsedRange.Rows(.UsedRange.Rows.Count).Row

'We loop from Lastrow to Firstrow (bottom to top)
For Lrow = Lastrow To Firstrow Step -1

'We check the values in the D column in this example
With .Cells(Lrow, "D")

If Not IsError(.Value) Then


If .Value = "" Then .EntireRow.Delete

'This will delete each row if the cell is empty or have a formula that evaluates to ""
'If .Value = "ron" Then .EntireRow.Delete
'This will delete each row with the Value "ron"
'in Column D, case sensitive.

End If

End With

Next Lrow

End With

ActiveWindow.View = ViewMode
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = True
.Calculation = CalcMode
End With

End Sub

Paul_Hossler
01-13-2017, 09:49 AM
Maybe this




Option Explicit

Sub DeDup()
ActiveSheet.UsedRange.RemoveDuplicates Columns:=Array(1, 2, 3), Header:=xlNo
End Sub

gint32
01-14-2017, 04:24 AM
Works a treat....thanks to all