Condensing Column A to Remove Redundancies (Remove Duplicates and Consolidate doesn't do it)

Dast_Kook

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Hi! Thank you for reading this one.

For an example of what I am trying to do, lets say I have a sheet that is about 200 rows long by 15 columns wide. It is one sheet with multiple bills-of-materials stacked one on top of the other. Column A has the master/parent numbers and Column B has all of the sub-components. All the other columns can be ignored for this. Each master part number has anywhere from one to 15 sub-components (example below).

Question:
Is there a way to distill Column A down to only one iteration/entry per master part number? Is the only way to hide all columns except for Column A and use the "remove duplicates" function?


Master ASub 1
Master ASub 2
Master ASub 3
Master BSub 1
Master BSub 2
Master CSub 1
Master CSub 2
Master CSub 3
Master CSub 4
 

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You can do what you want with Conditional Formatting using a formula

  1. Select the whole Master Part Number Column
  2. On the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting
  3. Click New Rule
  4. Select Use a formula to determine which cells to format
  5. In the formula text box paste this -> =IF(ROW(A1)>1,IF(A1=OFFSET(A1,-1,0),TRUE,FALSE),FALSE). Note: You may need to change "A1" in the formula to whatever the first cell in your range is.
  6. Click the Format button and change the Font colour to white
  7. Click OK until you get back to the worksheet. All the duplicates should now be invisible.
 
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something like this?
pt.jpg

if so use Pivot Table
 
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