How to select a names from a column MS Excel 2007

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Hey guys,

I have an Excel document which has a list of students and their group names. I have another sheet within the the same excel document which is called comments. In this sheet, I would like to have a list of individual team names listed.

There are 65 students and 14 defined groups.

Is there a way to select the 14 group names, without repitition?

Cell B3-B67 have the student names. Cell C3-C67 have the team names. The team names are entered against each student.

I know in SQL I could use something like select distinct(team_name) but in Excel, how can I replicate this?

Cheers, Alks.

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