grouping same rows in report



I have an Excel report (Header row A1..., data from A2 to V899)

In column A, there are duplicate names each with it's own data.

What I would like to do is first group all these same rows together.
looks like this:

EMPLOYEES.Name
Alejandro-Yarema,Warren
Alexiuk,Leonard Louis
Anctil,Craig William
Anderson,Laura E.
Anderson,Laura E.
Andrews,Janice Rose
Andrews,Janice Rose
Andrews,Jeremy
Antoniak,Michael
Antoniszyn,John
Appleford,John E.
Appleford,John E.
Appleford,John E.

I need to be able to first, get an accurate count of all the rows
(only counting all same names as 1 row) then be able to display rows
grouped together.

Is there an easy way to do this?

thx

Mel

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