How do I delete duplicates between two excel sheets quickly vba

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Published on 2012-12-02T00:41:29Z Indexed on 2012/12/02 5:04 UTC
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I am using vba and I have two sheets one is named "Do Not Call" and has about 800,000 rows of data in column A. I want to use this data to check column I in the second sheet, named "Sheet1". If it finds a match I want it to delete the whole row in "Sheet1". I have tailored the code I have found from a similar question here: Excel formula to Cross reference 2 sheets, remove duplicates from one sheet and ran it but nothing happens. I am not getting any errors but it is not functioning.

Here is the code I am currently trying and have no idea why it is not working

Option Explicit
Sub CleanDupes()
Dim wsA As Worksheet
Dim wsB As Worksheet
Dim keyColA As String

Dim keyColB As String
Dim rngA As Range
Dim rngB As Range
Dim intRowCounterA As Integer
Dim intRowCounterB As Integer
Dim strValueA As String


keyColA = "A"
keyColB = "I"

intRowCounterA = 1
intRowCounterB = 1

Set wsA = Worksheets("Do Not Call")
Set wsB = Worksheets("Sheet1")

Dim dict As Object
Set dict = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")

Do While Not IsEmpty(wsA.Range(keyColA & intRowCounterA).Value)
    Set rngA = wsA.Range(keyColA & intRowCounterA)
    strValueA = rngA.Value
    If Not dict.Exists(strValueA) Then
        dict.Add strValueA, 1
    End If
    intRowCounterA = intRowCounterA + 1
Loop

intRowCounterB = 1
Do While Not IsEmpty(wsB.Range(keyColB & intRowCounterB).Value)
    Set rngB = wsB.Range(keyColB & intRowCounterB)
    If dict.Exists(rngB.Value) Then
         wsB.Rows(intRowCounterB).delete
         intRowCounterB = intRowCounterB - 1
    End If
    intRowCounterB = intRowCounterB + 1
Loop
End Sub

I apologize if the above code is not in a code tag. This is my first time posting code online and I have no idea if I did it correctly.

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