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The above method was the first method of removing duplicates. We can see that the duplicate data has been deleted from column B and only the unique values remain.As column B is selected, we click on OK and Excel gives us a prompt that the duplicates data has been deleted and only the unique values remain.It tells us to select the column from which we want to remove duplicates, if we had selected the whole data, it would show all the columns and it is up to us to select the column from which we want to remove duplicates.After selecting, Continue with the current selection, click on remove duplicates, another dialog box appears,.

As column A has just one type of data and we need to remove duplicates from column B so we will select Continue with the current selection.

A dialog box appears It asks for us if we want to remove duplicates from the current selection or we want to expand our selection.

Select the column B, and in the data tab, under the data tools section click on remove duplicates,.

This is where removing duplicates in excel comes in handy. For a smaller amount of data we can simply count the number of names that are unique but for a larger amount of data it may take a while to figure out the same. We want to check how many people name are mentioned in column B.