When a conditional formatting rule is overkill, use these VBA procedures to highlight duplicates and then remove the highlighting in Microsoft Excel.

You can easily discover the duplicate values in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using its conditional formatting duplicate highlighting feature.

Microsoft Excel is perhaps the most powerful spreadsheet application you can buy. But it also has some simple functions, like finding duplicates in data.

By using the Highlight Cells Rules, you can highlight duplicate cells in your Excel worksheet to avoid confusion and mistakes.

You can search in Excel with the Search Sheet bar, and use Find and Replace to swap out terms or values. Here's how to do it.

Highlighting or even deleting duplicate records in Excel is simple but listing them isn't as easy. Fortunately, you can use Power Query to easily display a list of duplicate values or records.