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milanolm
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Sep 10, 2019
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Counting unique entries and creating a list

Is there a straight forward way to get Excel to count the number of unique items in a list and then total how many of each item there are? For example in the list: 4,5,6,7,4,4,5,7 I would like Excel ...
  • milanolm 

    There are several ways to achieve that.

    One easy way is, you can insert a Pivot Table and drag the same field you are trying to count the unique occurrences in both the Rows area and the Values area and change the value field setting to Count if the column you are working contains the numeric data.

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