Merge & Centre Duplicates Grouped Together

[jakefh]

Hi.

I'm a school timetabler and for irrelevant reasons need to split the day into 20 minute slots.

We have two lengths of lessons, 60 minutes and 100 minutes.

When I export the timetable from the timetable software to excel I get the class name duplicated in three cells for 60 minute lessons and five cells for 100 minute lessons.

I would like to know how to select the groupings, remove the duplicates within the grouping, leave one class name and merge & center.

Class names will be repeated for classes at different times in the day and week in other groupings so I don't want all duplicates to be removed, just the ones within a grouping.

Some class groupings will not have a blank cell in between but will have a different class name.

I hope I've explained myself!

Thanks in advance.

 

[jakefh]

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