Not simple duplicated values removable

[nasrundin]

Hi there,

I want to remove duplicated rows from my table. The real spreadsheet is huge, but in order to simplify it, I'm posting here a sample in this picture. It's a spreadsheet with clients, with Names, Ages and Countries. We have full data of most of our clients, but we have duplicated and incomplete rows we want to delete. I tried advanced filter and the duplicate removable bottom from Data menu but either doesn't work.

To understand better is easier to look at my sample. In this case, I want to delete rows:

3 (because I have row 2 with complete data)
5 (because I have row 6 with complete data)
9 (because I have row 8 with complete data).

IMPORTANT: In this case, I can't just make a normal filter and copy the visible cells to another spreadsheet, because I don't want to delete the row 4, notice that row 4 (José) is not a duplicated row, but it has no data (or incomplete data).

My question is, how can I delete only duplicate data (incomplete/blank), preserving not duplicated rows as the row number 4?

 

[JoeMo]

What are the criteria used to check for duplication? For example, how would one know if the Maria of unspecified age from Brazil in row 5 is the same person as the 30-year old Maria from Brazil in row 6?

 

[nasrundin]

Because there are only unique names. There's no other Maria, no other Robson and no other Carlos.

 

[JoeMo]

Because there are only unique names. There's no other Maria, no other Robson and no other Carlos.

This may need some tweaking. For each unique name it retains the row with the most data associated with that name.

Sub RemoveNotSimpleDups()
'Names in column A are unique
Dim lR As Long, R As Range, i As Long, ct As Long, N() As Long, c As Range
'Sort names
Range("A2").Sort key1:=[A2], order1:=xlAscending, Header:=xlYes
Set R = Range("A1").CurrentRegion
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For i = R.Rows.Count To 1 Step -1
    ct = Application.CountIf(R.Columns(1), R.Columns(1).Cells(i))
    If ct = 1 Then GoTo Nx
    If R.Columns(1).Cells(i) = R.Columns(1).Cells(i - 1) And _
        Application.CountA(R.Rows(i)) <= Application.CountA(R.Rows(i - 1)) Then
        R.Rows(i).Delete shift:=xlUp
    ElseIf R.Columns(1).Cells(i) = R.Columns(1).Cells(i - 1) And _
        Application.CountA(R.Rows(i)) > Application.CountA(R.Rows(i - 1)) Then
        R.Rows(i - 1).Delete shift:=xlUp
    End If
Nx:
Next i
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub