I need help in getting excel to count the number of different number
values in a specified range of cells across a row. example:
1 1 2 should return 2
0 1 2 should return 3
2 2 2 should return 0

Can anyone help? thanks.


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I took an array formula that I've seen used for getting unique numbers and
made a slight change to it so that if there was only one unique item, it
would return 0. Worked on your test data.

=IF(SUM(1/COUNTIF(A2:C2,A2:C2))=1,0,SUM(1/COUNTIF(A2:C2,A2:C2)))

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I need help in getting excel to count the number of different number
values in a specified range of cells across a row. example:
1 1 2 should return 2
0 1 2 should return 3
2 2 2 should return 0

Can anyone help? thanks.


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Hi chiapas,
Please don't ask the same question on more than one forum.
People working on your problem are wasting their time if you have
already got the answer from another forum. Some of these people find
that very annoying.
Ken Johnson

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:56:33 -0600, chiapas77
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I need help in getting excel to count the number of different number
values in a specified range of cells across a row. example:
1 1 2 should return 2
0 1 2 should return 3
2 2 2 should return 0

Can anyone help? thanks.

I don't quite understand why 2,2,2 should return 0. Logic suggests it
should perhaps be 1

From a suggestion by Bob Philips several months ago.

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:E1<"")/COUNTIF(A1:E1,A1:E1&""))

Just change the A:E range to cover the number of columns in your rows.

If you really want a 2,2,2 type row to show 0 rather than 1 then you
probably need to wrap it all in an If(Fn=1,0,Fn) construction.

HTH

Richard Buttrey
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I apologize for the double post... Thanks Kevin and Richard for your
help... actually you are right Richard... 2,2,2 would return 1 and it's
ok. This help really got me out of a jam.

saul.


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