How do I clean up a corrupted Numbers spreadsheet with duplicate rows/columns?

I'm creating a Numbers spreadsheet to gather information to add Men's Groups to a new Directory that I'm building.


It has many rows/columns that I will eventually add to my directory. I have just opened it, and it appears to be corrupted, with many rows/columns appearing as duplicates. Visually, it's very hard to read and see what is there.


I have saved the spreadsheet as a .csv file; all of the data seems to be there. How do I clean up the file, or do I just use the *.csv file to recreate a new Numbers Spreadsheet?


I can upload the file to be seen?


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Original Title: Numbers file formatting

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Dec 29, 2025 11:14 PM

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Posted on Dec 30, 2025 7:55 AM

What you are describing sounds like you accidentally duplicated the table. Select the table and drag it around on the page and you'll see it is two separate tables. If you haven't edited it since you saw this, delete the table that is on top. It will probably be the one you selected already but, just to be sure, the table name will probably have a -1 at the end of it.

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Dec 30, 2025 7:55 AM in response to Batch108

What you are describing sounds like you accidentally duplicated the table. Select the table and drag it around on the page and you'll see it is two separate tables. If you haven't edited it since you saw this, delete the table that is on top. It will probably be the one you selected already but, just to be sure, the table name will probably have a -1 at the end of it.

How do I clean up a corrupted Numbers spreadsheet with duplicate rows/columns?

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