Every time your examples change the requirement. If you want a full
solution, give us a full requirement.

Bob

"EXCELMACROS" wrote in message
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Hi Bob, sorry if i'm not explaining the situation.... your formula does
not
work if we change the scenario, I did,

A1 = Blank
A2 = Blank
A3 = Blank
A4 = AAA
A5 = blank
A6 = AAA

and your formula gives me a 4, i'm expecting a 2. Just to give you more
information, each cell is a day of the month and the name is a person who
will perform a dutie. I want to know at the end of the month how many
times
1 person did two or more days in a row. At the end it could be random so
a
person might perform a function 3 days in a row and I want to count that
as 1
frequency.... make sense?

and I expct
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Thank you...


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

I didn't allow a for row 1 being blank

=COUNTIF(A1:A6,"<AAA")+(A6="AAA")-(A1<"AAA")

HTH

Bob

"EXCELMACROS" wrote in message
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Sorry Bob, it does not work. You can try it by changing the places for
example:

A1 = blank
A2 = AAA
A3 = AAA
A4 = AAA
A5 = blank
A6 = AAA

Your formula gives me 3 and i expect 2 (2 groups, group 1 for a2 to a4
and
group 2 for a6)
Thank youf or replying, any other ideas?
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Thank you...


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Try

=COUNTIF(A1:A6,"<AAA")+(A6="AAA")

HTH

Bob

"EXCELMACROS" wrote in message
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hi all.. I'm trying to count the number of times a name is on
consecutive
cells. Sounds easy but I can't find a function for this, maybe a
little
macro that goes cell by cell on each row? I appreciate your help,
for
example:

A1 = AAA
A2 = AAA
A3 = blank
A4 = AAA
A5 = AAA
A6 = AAA

Then my results should be equal to 2 since the name AAA appear in
two
groups, first group 2 times and second group 3 times.

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