PROVIDING ACCURATE, RELIABLE AND STRAIGHT TO THE POINT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DIFFERENT IT TOOLS EXPLAINED WITH PRACTICAL EXAMPLES
Whenever we prepare any report in excel, we have two constituents in any report.
The Text portion and the Numerical portion.
But just storing the text and numbers doesn’t make the super reports. Many times we need to automate the process in the reports to minimize the effort and improve the accuracy.
Many functions are provided by the Excel which work on Text and give us the useful output as well. But few problems are still left on which we need to apply some tricks with the available tools.
THIS WAS AN EXCERPT FROM THE FIRST ARTICLE OF THIS SERIES MANIPULATING TEXT IN EXCEL – PART I
IN THIS ARTICLE, WE’LL LEARN TO COUNT THE UNIQUE TEXT VALUES IN EXCEL.
TEXT IS AN INACTIVE NUMBER TYPE[FORMAT] IN EXCEL. ANYTHING STORED AS TEXT [NUMBER OR DATE] WON’T RESPOND TO ANY STANDARD FORMULAS OR FUNCTIONS BUT SPECIALLY DESIGNED TEXT FUNCTIONS. [EXCEPTIONS DO OCCUR IN CASE OF NUMBERS]
This can be a requirement sometime when we need to count the unique text values in a given data or column. It can be done with a number of ways. Let us discuss a few.
1. USING REMOVE DUPLICATES
2. USING UNIQUE FUNCTION
USING REMOVE DUPLICATES:
This is an option already available in Excel directly and very easy to use.
THIS OPTION IS NOT AUTOMATIC AND SHOULD BE USED ONLY IF WE DON’T HAVE MUCH DATA TO BE ANALYZED.
STEPS TO USE REMOVE DUPLICATES TO COUNT THE UNIQUE TEXT VALUES IN EXCEL
[*KINDLY VISIT HERE FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROCEDURE OF REMOVING DUPLICATES IN EXCEL]
Select the complete data or column where we want to find the number of unique values. [ If we need the original column intact, copy the column and paste it somewhere else. We can perform operations on this column].
Go to HOME>DATA>REMOVE DUPLICATES.
Select the column from the dialog box. We have only one column so choose the column.
After selecting the column, press OK. It’ll leave only unique values in the column.
Now , we can put the formula =COUNTA(FIRST CELL OF COLUMN: LAST CELL OF COLUMN).
It’ll give us the number of unique text values present in the column.
STEPS TO COUNT UNIQUE TEXT VALUES IN A EXCEL USING UNIQUE FUNCTION.
[THE COMPLETE PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE USE OF UNIQUE FUNCTION IS HERE].
We have to process the information twice to get the desired results. First of all we need to find the unique values.
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