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Thanks.

Hi Koenig--
OK, finally, I figured it out! Thank you!
Here are the steps I took:
1. Put my list of names in Column A.
2. In Column B, on cell B2 (not B1--which is the mistake I was making prior), I pasted the code you suggested: =IF(A=A1,"duplicate","")
3. Then, I filled the entire column B with the formula. I made the mistake several times of just selecting the entire column from the top. That's wrong. What you need to do is select B2, the scroll all the way down and while holding shift, select the bottom B cell--only then click go the insert>fill>fill down. This fills every repeat with the word "duplicate" next to it. In my case, everytime there was a repeat in column A, column B would have the word "repeat" next to it.
4. Then I sorted column B by descending. This grouped all of the "repeats" at the bottom. I deleted all of those rows.
This worked for me.
What I don't understand is how or why you'd use the "paste values"? What's this about?
Thanks Koenig. It took me lots of trial and error, but I got it.

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