In Excel, Office 2007, I have the option to highlight duplicate values on the menu. Keep simple! Select the column, select "Conditional Formatting" - "Highlight Cells Rules" - "Duplicate Values" and voilá! All values that were duplicate on this column it was paint with color red, for example.
Actually I use the LibreOffice Calc, version 5.0.3.2, and I can't find this option on the menu!
How can I do this job?
In LibreOffice Calc 6.0.7.3 this can be done by following these steps (from this link):
Select column A by clicking on the header character A (the top of the column)
Select the menu:
Format->Conditional->Condition...Condition 1:
Cell value isand selectduplicatefrom the dropdownApply Style: Select your cell style (e.g.
Erroror any you defined in advance)Check that your cell range is
A1:A1048576(You may want to reduce the 1048576 to any reasonable number you assume will be the maximum to ever be used)Click
OKbutton
Not exactly the solution to this specific question, but I find the following comes in very handy when you have the column in question sorted, especially when you are sorting by multiple columns:
If you want to format any value in a cell that is a duplicate of the one immediately above it, select the entire column and use the following formula in Conditional Formatting
(INDIRECT(CELL("address"))=OFFSET(INDIRECT(CELL("address"));-1;0))
In a sorted column, the first occurrence of a value will be considered "unique" in that it hasn't occurred yet, and then all of the duplicates which follow immediately afterward are flagged (I usually use a light grey for the font color). If the column is not the major order (ie 2nd or later in the sort criteria) then the "uniqueness" is effectively "reset" each time sorting starts over for this column.