I am looking for a command/formulat to count (return a single number) the
number of unique text entries in a column.

One way

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A10<"")/COUNTIF(A1:A10,A1:A10&""))


Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Rob Kaiser" <Rob wrote in message
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I am looking for a command/formulat to count (return a single number) the
number of unique text entries in a column.

I like yours MUCH better, Peo

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

One way

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A10<"")/COUNTIF(A1:A10,A1:A10&""))


Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Rob Kaiser" <Rob wrote in message
...
I am looking for a command/formulat to count (return a single number) the
number of unique text entries in a column.

It's the SumProduct version of Hager's formula extended to take care of
formula-blanks and empty cells,

{=SUM(IF(A1:A10<"",1/COUNTIF(A1:A10,A1:A10)))}

Duke Carey wrote:
I like yours MUCH better, Peo

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:


One way

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A10<"")/COUNTIF(A1:A10,A1:A10&""))


Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Rob Kaiser" <Rob wrote in message
...

I am looking for a command/formulat to count (return a single number) the
number of unique text entries in a column.

Experts
How do you adjust this to account for columns that may be different in
length? One time you need A375 and the next time you use it is A584.


JayMan

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

It's the SumProduct version of Hager's formula extended to take care of
formula-blanks and empty cells,

{=SUM(IF(A1:A10<"",1/COUNTIF(A1:A10,A1:A10)))}

Duke Carey wrote:
I like yours MUCH better, Peo

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:


One way

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A10<"")/COUNTIF(A1:A10,A1:A10&""))


Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Rob Kaiser" <Rob wrote in message
...

I am looking for a command/formulat to count (return a single number) the
number of unique text entries in a column.

Sounds like you want to use a dynamic range. See this:

http://contextures.com/xlNames01.html#Dynamic

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"JayMan" wrote in message
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Experts
How do you adjust this to account for columns that may be different in
length? One time you need A375 and the next time you use it is A584.


JayMan

"Aladin Akyurek" wrote:

It's the SumProduct version of Hager's formula extended to take care of
formula-blanks and empty cells,

{=SUM(IF(A1:A10<"",1/COUNTIF(A1:A10,A1:A10)))}

Duke Carey wrote:
I like yours MUCH better, Peo

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:


One way

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A10<"")/COUNTIF(A1:A10,A1:A10&""))


Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Rob Kaiser" <Rob wrote in message
...

I am looking for a command/formulat to count (return a single number)
the
number of unique text entries in a column.

This is VERY resource intensive, so be careful using it on a list of several
thousand entries

It's an array formula - enter it with the key combination Ctrl+Shift+Enter

=SUM(1/COUNTIF(A1:A10,A1:A10))



"Rob Kaiser" wrote:

I am looking for a command/formulat to count (return a single number) the
number of unique text entries in a column.