How to recognize and fix duplicates in Google Sheets. Lori Butcher/Shutterstock. If you use Google's cloud-based productivity tools, you can also check your data for copies, just like Excel.

Google Sheets offers several ways to compare, identify, and remove duplicate data in cells and rows. These features can help you find cells where data matches, then signal that a difference exists ...

Deleting duplicates in Google Sheets. If you find any duplicates within your spreadsheet, it may be a part of your data and thus doesn’t need to be deleted.

Highlight duplicate cells in multiple Google Sheets columns. Highlight actual duplicates, leaving the 1st instance. Highlight complete row duplicates in Google Sheets.

Delete Duplicate Rows in Google Sheets. As Google Sheets doesn’t come with any inbuilt functionality, you need to take the help of a Chrome extension called Remove Duplicates.

If you use Google Sheets for monthly reporting, data cleanup, or tracking entries from multiple sources, you’ve probably spent more time than you’d like hunting down duplicates by hand. It’s ...