Check 2 Columns for duplicate values and Combine into Parent Child
I have a sheet where we capture name and e-mail. I want to check the sheet to see of these match and if they do, combine the duplicates into a parent child relationship with the first entry being the parent. I already capture the creation information so establishing the first entry should not be a problem.
Any suggestions?
Answers
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As far as I know, there's no way to automatically combine rows in a parent/child hierarchy.
Now, if you want to do this so you only display each name/address once, I can suggest you a workaround to this.
Add an helper column named "Duplicate" (flag type column) with this formula:
=IF(COUNTIF([Name]$1:[Name]@row,[Name]@row,[EMail]$1:[EMail]@row,[Email]@row)>1,1,0)
This will check if the name/email address combo was previously entered.
Then create a report out of this that only show rows where duplicate is at 0.
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