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Counting Unique Text Fields
I am trying to count a text list with many duplicates. I am just trying to
count these unique text fields. I tried using =SUM(1/COUNTIF(B1:B17,B1:B17)) but this just seems to count numbers and not text. Is there an easy way to do this? -- MWALL |
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Counting Unique Text Fields
Try this:
=SUMPRODUCT((B1:B17<"")/COUNTIF(B1:B17,B1:B17&"")) Is that something you can work with? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "MWall" wrote: I am trying to count a text list with many duplicates. I am just trying to count these unique text fields. I tried using =SUM(1/COUNTIF(B1:B17,B1:B17)) but this just seems to count numbers and not text. Is there an easy way to do this? -- MWALL |
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Hi Ron,
I tried this on one of my worksheets and it dragged it to a crawl every time it went through a computation :( "Ron Coderre" wrote: Try this: =SUMPRODUCT((B1:B17<"")/COUNTIF(B1:B17,B1:B17&"")) Is that something you can work with? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "MWall" wrote: I am trying to count a text list with many duplicates. I am just trying to count these unique text fields. I tried using =SUM(1/COUNTIF(B1:B17,B1:B17)) but this just seems to count numbers and not text. Is there an easy way to do this? -- MWALL |
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Counting Unique Text Fields
I suspect that the formula you posted:
=SUMPRODUCT((B1:B17<"")/COUNTIF(B1:B17,B1:B17&"")) didn't cause the problem, unless it was copied hundreds (thousands?) of times or it referenced a large range. Is that true? -------------------------- Regards, Ron Microsoft MVP (Excel) (XL2003, Win XP) "LouP" wrote in message ... Hi Ron, I tried this on one of my worksheets and it dragged it to a crawl every time it went through a computation :( "Ron Coderre" wrote: Try this: =SUMPRODUCT((B1:B17<"")/COUNTIF(B1:B17,B1:B17&"")) Is that something you can work with? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "MWall" wrote: I am trying to count a text list with many duplicates. I am just trying to count these unique text fields. I tried using =SUM(1/COUNTIF(B1:B17,B1:B17)) but this just seems to count numbers and not text. Is there an easy way to do this? -- MWALL |
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