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Default count unique entries across worksheets

countif works with text

"globetrotter" wrote:

bj,

I'll check out what you posted, but doesn't 'countif' only recognize cells
with numbers? Mine are text entries.

"bj" wrote:

also if you use seach for countif and 3d you find a good responce from Bob
Phillips to the question "Countif across multiple sheets" from gizmo63 in
april 06

"=SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&C1:C3&"'!C8"),"v alue"))

where C1:C3 is a range housing the relevant sheetnames in
separate cells."

I like his formula



"bj" wrote:

one of many passiblities would be
=countif('Sheet 1'!,A:A,"A")+countif('Sheet 2'!,A:A,"A")+countif('Sheet
3'!,A:A,"A")+

"globetrotter" wrote:

I have a workbook with multiple worksheets. Each worksheet has a number of
text entries in a column. Some of the entries are repeated on more than one
worksheet. Is there a formula I can construct that will return the number of
unique text entries across the whole workbook instead of just one sheet?

Example:
Sheet 1
A
B
C
D

Sheet 2
B
E
F
G

Sheet 3
D
E
I
J

Unique entries = 9

What formula can I use to generate that '9'? Thanks.