Is there a way to sort text by frequency within Excel?
Let's say I have a thousand branch offices, each with a unique alpha
identifier. I start with a list, sorted by date range, of which offices have placed orders. There is an entry in the spreadsheet for every instance an office has placed an order. As on order comes in, it's added to the spreadsheet, but not grouped by office. If office "AAA" placed 3 orders that month, it's entries might appear in rows 8, 25, and 334. By sorting the office column by alpha, I can now see see that office "AAA" placed 3 orders (rows 2-4) , and that office "AAB" placed 5 orders (rows 5-9). But which of the 1,000 offices placed the most orders? The least? |
One way would be to use a helper column..........assuming your list is in
column A, in B1 put =COUNTIF(A:A,A1) Then sort on column B as the first key and column A as the second key......... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "jellis1919" wrote in message ... Let's say I have a thousand branch offices, each with a unique alpha identifier. I start with a list, sorted by date range, of which offices have placed orders. There is an entry in the spreadsheet for every instance an office has placed an order. As on order comes in, it's added to the spreadsheet, but not grouped by office. If office "AAA" placed 3 orders that month, it's entries might appear in rows 8, 25, and 334. By sorting the office column by alpha, I can now see see that office "AAA" placed 3 orders (rows 2-4) , and that office "AAB" placed 5 orders (rows 5-9). But which of the 1,000 offices placed the most orders? The least? |
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