I am trying to count a data group and return the quanity of unique
entries:
It might look like this:

The data would be in cols & rows

2 green widgets 25.5 inches long
3 green widgets 28.3 inches long
1 brown widgets 52.1 inches long
2 green widgets 25.5 inches long
1 brown widgets 52.1 inches long

the result would be:

4 green widgets 25.5 inches long
3 green widgets 28.3 inches long
2 brown widgets 52.1 inches long

Any simple straight forward way to do this???
Thanks,
Spydor


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since you do not know the unique items in advance (?) as well as the
number of them I think vba is only way to do it.


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A Pivot Table would summarize your data for you.

Rows would be Product, Color, and Length
Data would be Sum of ItemCount

Is that something you can work with?

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Ron


"spydor" wrote:


I am trying to count a data group and return the quanity of unique
entries:
It might look like this:

The data would be in cols & rows

2 green widgets 25.5 inches long
3 green widgets 28.3 inches long
1 brown widgets 52.1 inches long
2 green widgets 25.5 inches long
1 brown widgets 52.1 inches long

the result would be:

4 green widgets 25.5 inches long
3 green widgets 28.3 inches long
2 brown widgets 52.1 inches long

Any simple straight forward way to do this???
Thanks,
Spydor


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try this - note my assumptions - there no doubt is a more slick way to
do this

Sub Macro1()
'max of 100 rows of data assumed
Dim combo(100) As String
'
'assume first row of data is row 3 and data is in colums A:C
A is #
B is color of widgets
C is length of widgets
'
startrow = 3
endrow = Cells(startrow, 1).End(xlDown).Row
'read in unique widget color and length combos
i = 1
'
' first combo is unique of course (column 2 being color and column 3
being length)
'
combo(i) = Cells(startrow, 2).Value & " " & _
Cells(startrow, 3).Value
For j = startrow + 1 To endrow
thiscombo = Cells(j, 2).Value & " " & _
Cells(j, 3).Value
For k = 1 To i
If combo(k) = thiscombo Then GoTo dup
Next k
' define new unique combo
i = i + 1
combo(i) = thiscombo
dup:
Next j
'
'write unique combo list to column F
'
For l = 1 To i
Cells(l, 6).Value = combo(l)
Next l
'
'insert summation formula to column E row 1
'
Cells(1, 5).Formula = _
"=SUMPRODUCT((F1=$B$3:$B$7&"" ""&$C$3:$C$7)*($A$3:$A$7))"
For l = 1 To i
Cells(1, 5).Copy Cells(l, 5)
Next l
End Sub


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Is that one column for the number, and one for the description, or many for
the description?

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I am trying to count a data group and return the quanity of unique
entries:
It might look like this:

The data would be in cols & rows

2 green widgets 25.5 inches long
3 green widgets 28.3 inches long
1 brown widgets 52.1 inches long
2 green widgets 25.5 inches long
1 brown widgets 52.1 inches long

the result would be:

4 green widgets 25.5 inches long
3 green widgets 28.3 inches long
2 brown widgets 52.1 inches long

Any simple straight forward way to do this???
Thanks,
Spydor


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