Formula to rank cells alphabetically
I have a list of names, e.g.
Bloggs, J Smith, P Peters, F I want a formula that can rank these in order so the output would be Bloggs, J 1 Smith, P 3 Peters, F 2 I know the sort function could be used but I need a formula. I know the Rank function will do this for numbers but does not work on alpha fields. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance |
Formula to rank cells alphabetically
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$5,"<"&A1)+1
-- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Dave Shaw" wrote in message ... I have a list of names, e.g. Bloggs, J Smith, P Peters, F I want a formula that can rank these in order so the output would be Bloggs, J 1 Smith, P 3 Peters, F 2 I know the sort function could be used but I need a formula. I know the Rank function will do this for numbers but does not work on alpha fields. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance |
Formula to rank cells alphabetically
Fantastic - so simple. I had started making a complicated formula based upon
code, left, right, etc. Many thanks Dave "Bob Phillips" wrote: =COUNTIF($A$1:$A$5,"<"&A1)+1 -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Dave Shaw" wrote in message ... I have a list of names, e.g. Bloggs, J Smith, P Peters, F I want a formula that can rank these in order so the output would be Bloggs, J 1 Smith, P 3 Peters, F 2 I know the sort function could be used but I need a formula. I know the Rank function will do this for numbers but does not work on alpha fields. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance |
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