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Posted on February 19, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

Select duplicates that appear in two columns using QGIS

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How do I find duplicates in two columns?

Navigate to the “Home” option and select duplicate values in the toolbar. Next, navigate to Conditional Formatting in Excel Option. A new window will appear on the screen with options to select “Duplicate” and “Unique” values. You can compare the two columns with matching values or unique values.
 

How to identify duplicates in one column based on a common value in another column?

Re: how to identify duplicates in one column based on a common value in another column?

  1. Assume your data is A2:B7 (A1:B1 is heading)
  2. In C1 type Count as the heading and in C2 type: =COUNTIFS(A2:$A$7,A2,B2:$B$7,B2)
  3. Add filter to the heading of A1:C1.

How do you remove duplicates from a combination of two columns?

Remove duplicate values from multiple columns in Excel

  1. Highlight the columns with the duplicate values.
  2. Click on Data from the top menu.
  3. From the ribbon, go the Data Tools group and click on Remove Duplicates (this is the icon with three tiers and an “x”).

How do I find duplicates in Qgis?

Check if there are duplicates using the Topology Checker

  1. Topology checker “must not have duplicates” rule.
  2. Topology checker showing 250 errors (with duplicates)
  3. Opening the QGIS DB Manager.
  4. QGIS DB Manager.
  5. Running the query on QGIS DB Manager.
  6. Layer of geometries with duplicates.
  7. Select attribute by location.

How do I filter duplicates in columns?

To filter for unique values, click Data > Sort & Filter > Advanced. To remove duplicate values, click Data > Data Tools > Remove Duplicates. To highlight unique or duplicate values, use the Conditional Formatting command in the Style group on the Home tab.

How do you find duplicates in two sets of Data?

If you want to identify duplicates across the entire data set, then select the entire set. Navigate to the Home tab and select the Conditional Formatting button. In the Conditional Formatting menu, select Highlight Cells Rules. In the menu that pops up, select Duplicate Values.
 

How do I find duplicates in two columns using Countif?

We can combine the COUNTIF and AND functions to find duplicates between columns.



To find out whether the names in column B are duplicates, we need to:

  1. Go to cell C2.
  2. Assign the formula =AND(COUNTIF($A$2:$A$6, A2),COUNTIF($B$2:$B$6, A2)) in C2.
  3. Press Enter.


How do I highlight the same value in different columns?

Quote from video: That's the basis of my conditional formatting. So I'm going to double click on that cell highlight the whole formula copy. And I'm now going to select all these names. I'm going to say conditional

How do you highlight a cell if it appears in another column?

How to highlight cells in excel based on the contents of other…

  1. Under Home tab | Styles | Conditional Formatting | Manage Rules.
  2. Create a new rule.
  3. Select “Use a formula to determine which cells to format”
  4. Enter “=A2=1” as the formula.
  5. Format the Fill colour as Red.
  6. Click okay and apply it to your selection.

 

How do I filter duplicates in two columns in Excel?

Click Data > Remove Duplicates, and then Under Columns, check or uncheck the columns where you want to remove the duplicates.

How do I find matches in two columns in Excel?

Comparing Two Columns in Excel with Equals Operator. You can compare two columns, row by row, and find the matching data by returning the result as Match or Not Match. The formula =A2=B2 is used in the example below to find the matching data and the result returns as True or False.
 

How do I compare two columns in Excel to find matches?

Example 1. Compare two columns for matches or differences in the same row

  1. To compare two columns in Excel row-by-row, write a usual IF formula that compares the first two cells.
  2. The result may look similar to this:
  3. =IF(EXACT(A2, B2), “Match”, “”)
  4. =IF(AND(A2=B2, A2=C2), “Full match”, “”)

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