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Copper Contributor

Mar 17, 2019

Counting the number of rows by text value

I have a file with case numbers and case types in a given month. I want to know which case type is the most common. How can I get a count of the number of rows in each case type?

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PeterBartholomew1

Silver Contributor

Mar 17, 2019

Jenny-Amari

A different mindset, stemming mainly from personal prejudices! To avoid the need for helper cells, I introduced names and loaded the array formula

= COUNTIF( CaseType, CaseType )

into the 'Refers to' box for the named formula 'occurrences'. The innovatively-named cell value 'maxOccurrences' is then given by the worksheet formula

= MAX( occurrences )

Knowing the number of occurrences I am looking for, the case type is given by

= LOOKUP( 2, 1/(occurrences=maxOccurrences), caseType )

Gaurav_Jalan

Thanks for the borrowed problem layout!