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dsingh2255
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Oct 19, 2022
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how to sort data with most occurance first with excel 2016 formula only

Hi All  My data is like this:- User Sale Qty Amount Betty Beth 10 2000 Akshay Verma 20 1500 Ashley Adams 50 3500 Barney Beckham 25 6000 Beth Firch 35 7000 Akshay Ve...
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    dscheikey
    Oct 20, 2022

    dsingh2255Here is the formula for 20,000 rows.

    =IFNA(INDEX(A2:C20001,MATCH(ROW(1:20000),RANK(COUNTIF(A2:A20001,A2:A20001)+(1-(MATCH(A2:A20001,A2:A20001,0)/10^5))+(1-(ROW(A2:A20001)/10^10)),COUNTIF(A2:A20001,A2:A20001)+(1-(MATCH(A2:A20001,A2:A20001,0)/10^5))+(1-(ROW(A2:A20001)/10^10)),0),0),{1,2,3}),"")

    I have added IFNA() so that you can prepare the formula whether the data is available or not. I think it is easy to understand. If you have more than 20k rows then you have to change the 20001 in the formula. If you have more than 99,999 rows you have to change the part 10^5 to 10^6 and the part 10^10 to 10^12. Good luck.

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dscheikey
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Nov 17, 2022

dsingh2255 

The formula for the auxiliary column must now be as follows:

=IFERROR(COUNTIF(H2:H20001,H2:H20001)/--(TRIM(H2:H20001)<>"")+(1-(MATCH(H2:H20001,H2:H20001,0)/10^5))+(1-(ROW(H2:H20001)/10^10)),"")

 That was very interesting.

=H2=""         > TRUE
=ISBLANK(H2)   > FALSE
=COUNTA(H2)    > 1
=LEN(H2)       > 0
=CODE(H2)      > #VALUE!

The non-printable character could only be queried with ="". I did this outside of COUNTIF() and caught it with IFERROR(). With TRIM() I then also excluded the other empty cells with one or more spaces from the filter.

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dsingh2255
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Nov 18, 2022
Thanks a ton buddy....you are great...!!!

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