This post will show you how to remove the first or last few characters or certain position characters from the text in Microsoft Excel.

How to remove duplicates in Excel for a single column When you have duplicate data that you want to remove from a single column in your dataset, start by clicking into the column you want to dedupe.

To pinpoint duplicate entries, apply Excel's conditional formatting feature: Open the Excel worksheet containing the data in question. Select the column or range you want to inspect for duplicates.

Simply remove the comment character (‘). It might not be obvious, but the procedure allows you to delete values from any column in any sheet, so in that respect, it is versatile.