I was wonder how to go about the following:

I have a list of characters, and I want to be able to have a list of all of
the unique characters. The built in advanced filter function is not case
sensitive. Is there anyway to make it case sensitive, or is there another way
to do this?

Any help is much appreciated.

Let's say we want to filter column A by any criteria AND only upper case. In
the second row of a helper column enter:

=EXACT(A2,UPPER(A2))

and copy down. Of course, you should put a label in the first cell of the
helper column. This formula returns TRUE only if A1 is upper case. Switch
on autofilter and, using the helper column, you can filter to show either the
uppers or the lowers.
--
Gary's Student
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"Shudder777" wrote:

I was wonder how to go about the following:

I have a list of characters, and I want to be able to have a list of all of
the unique characters. The built in advanced filter function is not case
sensitive. Is there anyway to make it case sensitive, or is there another way
to do this?

Any help is much appreciated.

Try this as a start. you need to use a couple of helper columns. Try putting
=CODE(a2) in b2 if your list is in collumn a. When you copy it down it will
put the ACSII code in column b. I was not able to auto sort on this column
directly but if you copy and paste values using paste special in column c you
can auto sort unique values on that new collumn. Column A should show unique
values taking into account upper and lower case letters.

I think there might be a better way but can not come up with it at the moment
--
John
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"Shudder777" wrote:

I was wonder how to go about the following:

I have a list of characters, and I want to be able to have a list of all of
the unique characters. The built in advanced filter function is not case
sensitive. Is there anyway to make it case sensitive, or is there another way
to do this?

Any help is much appreciated.

Try this:

=IF(ISERR(SMALL(IF(FREQUENCY(CODE($A$2:$A$10),CODE ($A$2:$A$10)),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&ROWS($A$2:$A$10))) ),ROWS($1:1))),"",INDEX($A$2:$A$10,SMALL(IF(FREQUE NCY(CODE($A$2:$A$10),CODE($A$2:$A$10)),ROW(INDIREC T("1:"&ROWS($A$2:$A$10)))),ROWS($1:1))))

ctrl+shift+enter, not just enter
Adjust your range to suit


"Shudder777" wrote:

I was wonder how to go about the following:

I have a list of characters, and I want to be able to have a list of all of
the unique characters. The built in advanced filter function is not case
sensitive. Is there anyway to make it case sensitive, or is there another way
to do this?

Any help is much appreciated.