{"id":2592,"date":"2014-01-07T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2018-07-29T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T10:35:16","slug":"how-to-merge-excel-spreadsheets-and-remove-old-duplicates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/2014\/01\/how-to-merge-excel-spreadsheets-and-remove-old-duplicates\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Merge excel spreadsheets and remove old duplicates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using Excel 2010, <\/p>\n<p>1)  \u00a0Load both files<br \/>\n2) copy the older table and paste it to the end of the newer table<br \/>\n3) In the Data Tab Click Remove duplicates<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/excel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2593 alignnone\" alt=\"excel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/excel-300x78.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/excel-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/excel.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u00a04) you will be prompt with this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/excel2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2594 alignnone\" alt=\"excel2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/excel2-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/excel2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/excel2.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u00a0The column names will be obviously different depending on what you have as a header.<\/p>\n<p>Select only a combination of Unique data so for example in this,<br \/>\n  I would select just emails.<\/p>\n<p>You can also select First and Last name,  \u00a0But then there is a chance that in a large sets of data that 2 different people will have the same name.  \u00a0Email is usually unique.<\/p>\n<p>If this helped you, please leave a comment. Consider getting me a cup of coffee, \u00a0follow this link: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/0cg2uu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/0cg2uu<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Excel 2010, 1) \u00a0Load both files 2) copy the older table and paste it to the end of the newer table 3) In the Data Tab Click&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_seo_fixer_meta_description":"","_seo_fixer_focus_keyword":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[127,126,128,129,130],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-duplicate","tag-excel","tag-merge","tag-remove-older","tag-spreadsheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}