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Need to count repeates in a very large list of cells with text
I have a huge list of repeating company names (5,000+ entries), with ~1800 of
those being unique. I would like to find out the top 10 companies that have the most repeats. Is there any easy way of doing this? Do I have to convert the text to numbers and work with that instead? I think I could use the countif function to do it if it were numbers, by dragging the formula down the list of unique values... however, that doesn't work with text becuase I would need to actually type out the value inside the cell and put quote marks around it. Got any tricks besides converting text to numbers (if that is even a possibility)? What else would you recommend? |
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Need to count repeates in a very large list of cells with text
Have you tried using pivot table?
"Sharon" wrote: I have a huge list of repeating company names (5,000+ entries), with ~1800 of those being unique. I would like to find out the top 10 companies that have the most repeats. Is there any easy way of doing this? Do I have to convert the text to numbers and work with that instead? I think I could use the countif function to do it if it were numbers, by dragging the formula down the list of unique values... however, that doesn't work with text becuase I would need to actually type out the value inside the cell and put quote marks around it. Got any tricks besides converting text to numbers (if that is even a possibility)? What else would you recommend? |
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Need to count repeates in a very large list of cells with text
I have not tried that, and I have never actually worked with a pivot table
before. I don't even really know what they do. How would I create a pivot table from my form? thanks, Sharon "Barb Reinhardt" wrote: Have you tried using pivot table? "Sharon" wrote: I have a huge list of repeating company names (5,000+ entries), with ~1800 of those being unique. I would like to find out the top 10 companies that have the most repeats. Is there any easy way of doing this? Do I have to convert the text to numbers and work with that instead? I think I could use the countif function to do it if it were numbers, by dragging the formula down the list of unique values... however, that doesn't work with text becuase I would need to actually type out the value inside the cell and put quote marks around it. Got any tricks besides converting text to numbers (if that is even a possibility)? What else would you recommend? |
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