excel vba code to find duplicates in a column and add their corresponding values from another column
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I hope someone will be able to help me with this. I have a column A with staff id's and have their
hours worked in another column K. There are some staff id's that appear more than once on the
list and I would like to know if there is a way in Excel VBA with which I can check if each of the
staff id's appears more than once, and if so, then add up their total hours worked and put the
result in another column corresponding to the first instance of that staff id and the duplicatesbeing 0.
This is for a monthly report and there may be over 2k records at any point.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
PS - I am just an intermediate when it comes to VBA.
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did you try anything?? do you really need to do it with VBA as a pivot table could be good eno
KazJaw Mar 14 at 16:31
1 indeed use a pivot table, problem solved I guess... – K_B Mar 14 at 16:34
exactly, use a pivot table to group and sum your data... – Philip Mar 14 at 16:51
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The reason I want to use VBA is because this is one part of the entire process, which is in plac
report is run monthly and is calculated using VBA, and the aim is to minimise manual interve
Thanks for the suggestions though. – user2170214 Mar 14 at 16:53
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another alternative in Excel VBA is to use the worksheet functions COUNTIF and SUMIF in yo
(Application.WorksheetFunction.SumIf) if you write some code, we'll help you fix it – Phili
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As everyone else said, a Pivot Table really is the best way. If you're unsure how to use a
PivotTable or what it's good for, refer to this SO post where I explain in detail. Anyway, I put together the below VBA function to help get you started. It's by no means the most
efficient approach; it also makes the following assumptions:
Sheet 1 has all the data
A has Staff Id
B has Hours
C is reserved for Total Hours
D will be available for processing status output
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This of course can all be changed very easily by altering the code a bit. Review the code, it's
commented for you to understand.
The reason a Status column must exist is to avoid processing a Staff Id that was already
processed. You could very alter the code to avoid the need for this column, but this is the way I
went about things.
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Public Sub HoursForEmployeeById()
Dim currentStaffId As String
Dim totalHours As Double
Dim totalStaffRows As Integer
Dim currentStaffRow As Integer
Dim totalSearchRows As Integer
Dim currentSearchRow As Integer
Dim staffColumn As Integer
Dim hoursColumn As Integer
Dim totalHoursColumn As Integer
Dim statusColumn As Integer
'change these to appropriate columns
staffColumn = 1
hoursColumn = 2
totalHoursColumn = 3
statusColumn = 4
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
totalStaffRows = Sheet1.Cells(Rows.Count, staffColumn).End(xlUp).Row
For currentStaffRow = 2 To totalStaffRows
currentStaffId = Cells(currentStaffRow, staffColumn).Value
'if the current staff Id was not already processed (duplicate record)
If Not StrComp("Duplicate", Cells(currentStaffRow, statusColumn).Value, vbTextCompare) = 0
Then
'get this rows total hours
totalHours = CDbl(Cells(currentStaffRow, hoursColumn).Value)
'search all subsequent rows for duplicates
totalSearchRows = totalStaffRows - currentStaffRow + 1
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For currentSearchRow = currentStaffRow + 1 To totalSearchRows
If StrComp(currentStaffId, Cells(currentSearchRow, staffColumn), vbTextCompare) = 0
Then
'duplicate found: log the hours worked, set them to 0, then mark as Duplicate
totalHours = totalHours + CDbl(Cells(currentSearchRow, hoursColumn).Value)
Cells(currentSearchRow, hoursColumn).Value = 0
Cells(currentSearchRow, statusColumn).Value = "Duplicate" End If
Next
'output total hours worked and mark as Processed
Cells(currentStaffRow, totalHoursColumn).Value = totalHours
Cells(currentStaffRow, statusColumn).Value = "Processed"
totalHours = 0 'reset total hours worked
End If
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
End Sub
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456 should result with 30 in line 3... – KazJaw Mar 14 at 17:43
ah...crap. Looks like a good exercise then for the OP ;) This is untested and as-is, it should serve a
though. Thanks for catching that. I unfortunately don't have time to debug right now. – SamMar 1
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Here is the solution for the data table located in range A1:B10 with headers and results written to
column C.
Sub Solution()
Range("c2:c10").Clear
Dim i
For i = 2 To 10
If WorksheetFunction.SumIf(Range("A1:a10"), Cells(i, 1), Range("C1:C10")) = 0 Then
Cells(i, "c") = WorksheetFunction.SumIf( _
Range("A1:a10"), Cells(i, 1), Range("B1:B10"))
Else
Cells(i, "c") = 0
End If
Next i
End Sub
Kaz Jaw & @Sam, thank you for the suggestions and help. I have tweaked your codes slightly, as r
giving the desired result. Your inputs have been very valuable. – user2170214 Mar 15 at 11:16
Try below code :
Sub sample()
Dim lastRow As Integer, num As Integer, i As Integer
lastRow = Range("A65000").End(xlUp).Row
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For i = 2 To lastRow
num = WorksheetFunction.Match(Cells(i, 1), Range("A1:A" & lastRow), 0)
If i = num Then
Cells(i, 3) = WorksheetFunction.SumIf(Range("A1:A" & lastRow), Cells(i, 1), Range("B1:B" &
lastRow))
Else Cells(i, 1).Interior.Color = vbYellow
End If
Next
End Sub
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