You say it returned zeroes?!?!
It should have returned *blank* cells ... N0?
But, then again, I don't know what you have in Column A of the Sheet where
you've entered this formula.
Your formula is looking in Sheet1 for the data list, *BUT* looking in the
sheet containing the formula for *both* the matching criteria *and* the cell
to be returned.
Anyway, with all your data in Sheet1, the formula should read:
=IF(COUNTIF(Sheet1!$A$2:A2,Sheet1!A2)=1,Sheet1!A2, "")
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HTH,
RD
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"vipa2000" wrote in message
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Thanks for that RagDyer. On the spreadsheet where the data was I inserted a
column and put the following code ina cell.
=IF(COUNTIF($A$2:A2,A2)=1,A2,"").
this worked fine. As originally specified I wanted the code to be on a
separate worksheet, but obviously looking at the data worksheet. i used this
code =IF(COUNTIF(sheet1!$A$2:A2,A2)=1,A2,""). all it returns is zeros's.
tried a few things. Any ideas?
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Regards vipa
"RagDyer" wrote:
Check out Chip Pearson's web site:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/topic.htm
Scroll down to the D's and check out all the pages on "Duplicates", where
you can find exactly what you need.
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RD
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"vipa2000" wrote in message
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I have the below data. Firstly, I don't want to use excels autofilters.
My
data changes monthly. I want 2 worksheets, one that contains data pasted
in
by users, which will vary in length and the other worksheet functioning
as
a
report sheet interrogating the data on spreadsheet 1. On worksheet 1
column 1
will have multiple entires but with many duplicates. I want the report
sheet
to count the number of unique values and count them, and now the tricky
bit,
generate a list displaying this data. I have in other reports set my
column
ranges as an example to a2:a30000.
1 2
120209 CONELECT
120209 CONMISGS
120209 CONMISGS
120215 CONBATT
120215 CONCAIRO
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