Sorry, some typos in the preceding response ..

Lines
Put in G1: ..
Put in H1: ..
Then select E1:H1 ...

should read as
Put in F1: ..
Put in G1: ..
Then select E1:G1 ...

And for an auto-descending sort of only the unique source data items in col
F ..
try these ..

Put instead in E1:
=IF(A1="","",IF(COUNTIF($A$1:A1,A1)1,"",IF(ISNUMB ER(A1+0),A1+0,IF(ISTEXT(A1),CODE(LEFT(A1))*10^10-ROW()))))

Put instead in F1:
=IF(ROW()COUNT(E:E),"",INDEX(A:A,MATCH(LARGE(E:E, ROW()),E:E,0)))

(no change to G1's formula)

Then just copy E1:G1 down as before to cover the max expected extent of
source data in col A. Hide away col E. Col F will yield the list of uniques
from col A,
sorted in descending order*, while col G returns the corresponding count of
the uniques' occurences.
*Alphas will be sorted ahead of numbers (either real or text numbers)
--
Max
Singapore
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xdemechanik
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