Concatenate & Remove Duplicate

peelamedu_bulls

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I have the following column values

Input
Account no Code
000005678 ABC
000005678 EDF
000001234 ABC
000001234 ABC

Desired Output
Account no Code
000005678 ABC
000005678 EDF
000001234 ABC

Criteria
Concatenate Column A and B (i.e Account No and Code)
If there are duplicates of this concatenated data, remove duplicates

I'm able to do this in VBA in a round about way, i.e create a column to concatenate two columns and then create one more column and use countif to determine if there are duplicates and then remove the duplicate. But it's long, and not elegant. Trying to avoid these calculation columns in the final output.

Is there a more elegant solution to this problem ?
 

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How about
Code:
Sub peelamedu2()
   With Range("A2", Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp))
      .Value = Evaluate("if({1}, " & .Address & " & " & .Offset(, 1).Address & ")")
      .Resize(, 2).RemoveDuplicates 1, xlNo
   End With
  [COLOR=#ff0000] Columns(2).Delete[/COLOR]
End Sub
Remove the line in red if you don't want to delete col B
 
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How about
Code:
Sub peelamedu2()
   With Range("A2", Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp))
      .Value = Evaluate("if({1}, " & .Address & " & " & .Offset(, 1).Address & ")")
      .Resize(, 2).RemoveDuplicates 1, xlNo
   End With
  [COLOR=#ff0000] Columns(2).Delete[/COLOR]
End Sub
Remove the line in red if you don't want to delete col B

Hi Fluff,

Do you know which version of excel first introduced the RemoveDuplicates functionality\Method ?

Regards.
 
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I think it was either 2007, or 2010.
 
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How about
Code:
Sub peelamedu2()
   With Range("A2", Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp))
      .Value = Evaluate("if({1}, " & .Address & " & " & .Offset(, 1).Address & ")")
      .Resize(, 2).RemoveDuplicates 1, xlNo
   End With
  [COLOR=#ff0000] Columns(2).Delete[/COLOR]
End Sub
Remove the line in red if you don't want to delete col B


Thank you.
However the output now is combined in one column, i.e Column A. I needed column A and B to be retained. Just the duplicates removed.

Desired output
Account No Code
000005678 ABC
000005678 EDF
000001234 ABC
 
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In that case how about
Code:
Sub peelamedu2()
   With Range("C2:C" & Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row)
      .Value = Evaluate("if({1}, " & .Offset(, -2).Address & " & " & .Offset(, -1).Address & ")")
      .Offset(, -2).Resize(, 3).RemoveDuplicates 3, xlNo
   End With
   Columns(3).Delete
End Sub
This will put the concatenated values in col C & then delete it
 
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Is this how you whant
Code:
Sub do_it()
   With Range("A1", Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)).Resize(, 2)
     .RemoveDuplicates Columns:=Array(1, 2), Header:=xlYes
   End With
  End Sub
 
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@mohadin
Using RemoveDuplicates on multiple columns like that is unreliable & I would recommend against using.
 
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Hi fluff
Thank you, would you please explicate
 
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