excel / open office - append an incrementing value to all non-unique fields

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I have a large table of about 7500 store names. I need to search through those names and, if they are not unique, append an incrementing value, for example:

store_1 store_2

etc.

Anyone know how to do this?

For another project, I was using this:

=J1&IF(COUNTIF($J$1:J1,J1)>1,COUNTIF($J$1:J1,J1),"")

but in open office this gives an error, and in google spreadsheets, it times out because my database is so big. Any suggestions?

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