Düber release history
12-Jul-08: Düber 2.0 build 26 is available for download
- Improved registration process
- Updated uninstall information in README file
- Corrected dialog title on cancellation confirmation
06-Mar-08: Düber 2.0 build 25 is available for download
- Fixed a crash caused when column headers contained Excel errors (e.g #NAME! or #DIV/0!).
- Result dialog now displays records as they were formatted in the original list.
25-Feb-08: Düber 2.0 build 24 is available for download
- Fixed the column name display when no header row selected.
- Added PDF instructions to the installed package.
19-Dec-07: Düber 2.0 build 23 is available for download
- Increased the number of 1-Click profiles remembered from 10 to 20.
- Changed the menu name to Dedupe...
17-Dec-07: Düber 2.0 build 22 is available for download
- Evaluation copies of Düber now only prompt for a license when a deduplication is started rather than every time Excel starts.
- Added a button to go to the website on the About dialog.
- Fixed creating audit sheets for lists with more than 252 fields.
08-Dec-07: Düber 2.0 build 21 is available for download
- Significant performance improvements throughout. Fuzzy matching is up to 30 times faster.
- Brand new wizard based interface including 1-Click Deduplication for much easier use.
- Context-sensitive online help.
- New "Fix Duplicates" operation which allows duplicate records to be fixed rather than removed.
- Deduplication settings remembered for recently used lists.
- Option to create an audit sheet showing which duplicates were in each set and which were chosen.
- Added "most populated record" to the automatic result selection choices.
- Option to confirm before overwriting previous deduplication results.
- Improved accented character support.
- Exact match now preserves field boundaries.
- Will detect if deduplication started on result, discard or audit sheet and prompt to switch to source.
- New evaluation mode allows Düber to be used a few times before requiring registration.
- Fixed case insensitive not being very insensitive.
- Fixed a crash caused by Fuzzy Matching very long lists.
- Fixed a rare crash caused by the progress form not disappearing.
- Fixed record sorting.
12-May-07: Düber 1.0 build 20 is available for download
- Added an option to save discarded records to a separate sheet
27-Sep-06: Düber 1.0 build 19 is available for download
- Greatly improved record sorting performance
- Fixed the fuzzy matching progress bar so it now accurately reflects progress
- If global selection operations take a long time then the top text area of the Results form says "Selecting Records..."
- Added an option to the Results Options form to allow you to toggle the display of record match percentage
- Added an option to the Results Options form to allow you to toggle the display of record number
- Record match percentage is automatically selected if fuzzy matching was used and there were duplicate sets containing fuzzy matches
- Added an option to the Results Options to allow you to switch between viewing all duplicate sets and only those containing fuzzy matches
- Results dialog automatically displays only sets containing fuzzy matches if any were found
- Added an option to the Dedupe Options so that if you cancel during fuzzy matching you are asked if you want to go to the Results. This only happens if duplicates have been found before you cancel
- Added progress bar display for sorting records and building duplicate sets
- Enhanced the resolution of the progress bar
- Deduplications that find no duplicates now exit faster
23-Sep-06: Düber 1.0 build 18 is available for download
- Records are now kept in the order they were on the original list after fuzzy match (they were already for exact match)
- Added more global actions to the Results dialog. You can now select the first or last item in each duplicate set automatically
- Improved the Dedupe dialog so you can't select single field threshold unless you have more than one field for the unique key
- Fixed an error in the fuzzy matcher that could cause a crash under rare conditions
- Added the maximum number of record sets to the record set display on the Results dialog
- Improved documentation to detail the Results dialog and usage examples
31-Oct-05: Düber 1.0 build 17 is available for download
- Fixed a problem with the fuzzy matcher that could cause duplicates to be missed
- Changed the progress bar highlight to make it more visible
- Made Düber capable of dealing with data containing Excel errors
- Corrected a grammatical error in the README file
- Corrected a spelling error in one of the error messages
05-May-04: Düber 1.0 build 16 is available for download
- Düber is now an Excel Add-in
- Changed to using the windows installer
- Fixed a problem where long worksheet names were causing an error
- Fixed a problem where selecting Dedupe menu with no open workbooks was causing an error
- The name of the results worksheet is now displayed at the end of deduplication
18-Oct-03: Düber 1.0 build 15 is available for download
- Several performance improvements
- You can now cancel deduplication at any stage
- Result dialog now selects one record from each duplicate set by default