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neogeo0823
Jul 4, 2007

NO THAT'S NOT ME!!

What's a good freeware replacement for Excel? Specifically, I'm looking for something that can find and conditionally format duplicate entries.

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neogeo0823
Jul 4, 2007

NO THAT'S NOT ME!!

LLJKSiLk posted:

Google Docs Spreadsheets is almost identical to Excel except for some of the formulas are different, but there is usually a 1:1 replacement for most things.

I'm looking through it right now and I'm not seeing anything to highlight duplicate entries. Am I missing it?

neogeo0823 fucked around with this message at 15:25 on May 12, 2015

neogeo0823
Jul 4, 2007

NO THAT'S NOT ME!!

Sir Unimaginative posted:

There isn't one natively, because Google Sheets is a bit lightweight; scripting is an option (why a Googler used the thread to push add-ons without actually linking to a relevant one I have no clue).

Also LibreOffice is an option and doing that works sort of the same (easier to web-search for conditional formatting; about the same but no obvious "quick" options, you'd probably use the conditional formatting window).

It turns out there's an add-on in Google Sheets called Remove Duplicates which does exactly what I want. It takes a sheet, or a selection from a sheet, finds either just duplicates, just uniques, or duplicates/uniques as well as the original entry, and then gives you choices of what you want to do to them. You can highlight them, copy/paste them somewhere, delete them, and a couple other things. This is actually quite handy, now that I've tried it out.

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