How I can Identify Duplicate Values in an Excel Table

55. How to Identify Duplicate Values in an Excel Table
56. How to See if a Query Is Progressing
57. How to Select Excel Ranges by Using the Name Box

55. Identify Duplicate Values in an Excel Table
In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, you can easily highlight duplicate values with conditional formatting.
1. Select the list in which you want to identify duplicates.
2. Click the Home tab on the Ribbon.
3. In the Styles section, click Conditional Formatting, point to Highlight Cells Rules, and then click Duplicate Values. Pairs of duplicates will then be highlighted, and you can choose which of each pair to delete

56. See How a Query Is Progressing
Because Microsoft Office Excel 2007 can now display more than 1 million rows in a spreadsheet, you can run queries that return a lot of data and therefore take a long time. By setting a query to refresh in the background, you can still work in Excel while data is being retrieved.
On the left side of the status bar is a little spinning globe, which lets you know that the query is still running. Clicking the globe opens a dialog box where you can see the queries that are being executed in the background, how long they have been running, and how many records have been returned so far. You can even stop the query if you want to.

57. Selecting Excel Ranges by Using the Name Box
In Microsoft Office Excel, you can select a range of cells by typing it in the Name box. This is particularly useful if the range is large and will therefore take time and a lot of scrolling to select by hand.