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. 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. This will record the column range for the next step. Open the sheets document you wish to sort and highlight the column you want to edit. Select the cell where you want to enter your unique formula. In the cell you will now see a little inverted triangle.

To copy unique google sheets cells do the following. This is the drop down menu symbol. Copy it without the quotation marks and replace x with the cells that you want to unique. This step is optional. 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.

To remove duplicates with the unique function in google sheets follow these steps. I have tried the following but it did not work. Use unique to find duplicates vs highlighting them. Third party add ons are also available making finding and highlighting duplicates really easy. Google sheets also has a built in feature that will remove duplicates completely.

Google sheets does not allow you to delete the values returned by the unique function unless you do so in the cell where you entered the formula in the above examples that was cell c2. Note that as i ve used the original list of books this has automatically made a unique list of the books i e. In the cell where you want to begin your list type in the following. There are no duplicates. The problem is that since arrayformula is also using data range like unique there is a conflict.

You may need to copy paste the distinct values that unique returned. Clicking on the triangle will open the drop down menu and your list of books. Your range can be on another tab and it can consist of multiple rows and columns. 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. Unique then drag your mouse around the range that has all the values where you want to pull unique values.