Thanks, this is very helpful - I'd not met the COUNTIF function.

K


"KK" wrote in message
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Hello,

I have a list of integer numbers in a single column. They are in no
particular order, and I cannot sort them (it would upset the rest of the
spreadsheet). Some of the integers are repeated more than once, & I want
to
increase the repeats by 1, then 2, 3 ... so that I end up with a list of
unique integers. So for example if I have 5,27,21,5,33,5,5 I would end up
with 5,27,21,6,33,7,8.

I've been studying the Match, & other Lookup functions, but am unclear
about
the best approach.

Hope this makes sense ?

Thanks

K