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Default Most and least common

Assuming you have your values in Col A
then type this in B1
=INDIRECT("A"&MATCH(MAX(COUNTIF(A1:A30,A1:A30)),CO UNTIF(A1:A30,A1:A30),0))
and
IMP:- press CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER as this is an ARRAY formula, to get the Max
entry..

and this for MIN in B2
=INDIRECT("A"&MATCH(MIN(COUNTIF(A1:A30,A1:A30)),CO UNTIF(A1:A30,A1:A30),0))

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"jmj713" wrote:

I need to find both the most and the least common text values in a column.
For instance, if I have ten entries reading "Tuesday" and three "Monday", I'd
like to be able to return "Tuesday" as the most common and "Monday" as the
least common value.