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Jasmyn1565
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Aug 29, 2024

Condensing Data into a Range

Hello,   I am looking to condense data into a range. I have an example below.   In the sheet it shows: (All the data is in the same cell) Sally 1 Sally 2 Sally 3 Carl 1 John 1 John 2   Is...
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djclements
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Aug 29, 2024

Jasmyn1565 I have a few questions...

  1. What version of Excel are you using?
  2. Do the numbers always start from 1 and include all numbers from 1 to the maximum occurrence for each name?
  3. What exactly do you mean by "all the data is in the same cell"?

If you have Excel for MS365, one possibility (based on my assumptions for question 2 & 3) could be:

 

=LET(
    rng, A2:A7,
    unq, UNIQUE(TEXTBEFORE(rng, " ")),
    qty, COUNTIF(rng, unq & "*"),
    unq & " 1" & IF(qty>1, "-" & qty, "")
)

 

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However, I'm not entirely sure my interpretation of your described dataset was accurate.

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    djclements
    Silver Contributor
    Aug 30, 2024

    Jasmyn1565 Further to my previous reply, if the entire list of names/numbers is actually in the same cell, separated by line breaks (Alt+Enter), you could try something along these lines:

     

    =LET(
    arr, TAKE(TEXTSPLIT(A2, " ", CHAR(10)),, 1),
    unq, UNIQUE(arr),
    qty, MMULT(N(unq=TOROW(arr)), EXPAND(1, ROWS(arr),, 1)),
    unq & " 1" & IF(qty>1, "-" & qty, "")
)

     

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