How To Use Unique In Google Sheets

This tutorial contains the steps you need to use the unique function in google sheets.

How to use unique in google sheets. Open the sheets document you wish to sort and highlight the column you want to edit. Note that as i ve used the original list of books this has automatically made a unique list of the books i e. To remove duplicates with the unique function in google sheets follow these steps. Google sheets also has a built in feature that will remove duplicates completely. You ll have to enter the function into the cell where you want your uniqued list to start click on it and enter it before selecting the range of cells you want to unique.

Select the cell where you want to enter your unique formula. This step is optional. Unique then drag your mouse around the range that has all the values where you want to pull unique values. The unique function is an incredibly useful function in google sheets that can be used to remove duplicate entries or in other words duplicate rows. Third party add ons are also available making finding and highlighting duplicates really easy.

For example cell b1. Copy the distinct values and select a destination cell. Arrayformula transpose unique transpose a2 a b2 b c2 c d2 d in other words i want the exact same result but using arrayformula instead of manually entering the formula for each row. Your range can be on another tab and it can consist of multiple rows and columns. I have tried the following but it did not work.

The problem is that since arrayformula is also using data range like unique there is a conflict. The function you need to use is unique x. This is the drop down menu symbol. In the cell you will now see a little inverted triangle. In the cell where you want to begin your list type in the following.

In this step we can prefix three or as many numbers as you want zeros to the unique readable ids that we are generating. Use unique to find duplicates vs highlighting them. This will record the column range for the next step. You may need to copy paste the distinct values that unique returned. Copy it without the quotation marks and replace x with the cells that you want to unique.