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Need some Excel Spreadsheet help

Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:01 pm
Posted by GatorReb
Dallas GA
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:01 pm
I figure I could dick around with this for a little bit and figure it out or just ask here for hopefully a quick response.


Column A has 35K values.

Of those 35K, 189 of them are different numbers. Lets say 1-189. (So the numbers 1-189 make up all 35K values)

How can I make it tell me how many of each value there is?

The tricky part is that I don't know all 189 values because they are 12 digit item numbers.

So essentially can I make it tell me how many of each value I have without me telling it what those values are?
Posted by iAmBatman
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:02 pm to
Pivot table

Count on column A
Posted by djangochained
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:02 pm to
Google it
Posted by Winston Cup
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:04 pm to
I would do pivot. Insert on the ribbon, select all the numbers in column a as your data

Row value will be the number (1-189)
The data value will be count of values

Someone beat me to it. Do a subtotal with a count would be another way
This post was edited on 4/5/17 at 11:06 pm
Posted by LakeViewLSU
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17730 posts
Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:06 pm to
Send it to the help desk. You shouldnt be doing menial labor.

You need to be concentrating on growth strategy.
Posted by Spankum
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Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:06 pm to
as the others say, a pivot table is what you want. not sure you will be able to figure it out at this time of night, without any real help though.
Posted by Montezuma
Member since Apr 2013
3682 posts
Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:08 pm to
/thread. First two responses are perfect. I frequently use google for compound excel functions I haven't used in awhile
Posted by GatorReb
Dallas GA
Member since Feb 2009
9426 posts
Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:08 pm to
thanks guys. Exactly what I needed
Posted by Jack Daniel
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:09 pm to
Uhhhh.....












Tree fiddy?
Posted by thelawnwranglers
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:10 pm to
Pivot table is answer

If you can figure that out but the number 1 next to all numbers in column b and subtotal
Posted by Winston Cup
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Member since May 2016
66985 posts
Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:13 pm to
To insert a pivot table


It will bring up this to select data set:

Select all of your data (click in a1, then hold ctrl+shift+down to highlight all cells)
OK


You can give column a a title or it will say data or something. Click in the right section on it and drag into bottom left and bottom right. It will make bottom right sum. Left click on it and select pivot table options, make it a count formula.

If moving to another sheet/workbook copy and paste values, not the table. You can use format painter to make it look nice
Posted by iAmBatman
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:14 pm to
That'll be $75

PayPal it to TDexcelguru@gmail.com
Posted by TheWalrus
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:33 pm to
I recommend counting it manually.
Posted by USMCTiger03
Member since Sep 2007
71176 posts
Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:35 pm to
Custom sort.
Posted by jefforize
Member since Feb 2008
46358 posts
Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:36 pm to
Or... just dump it into a sql server and select distinct with count.

SELECT DISTINCT (column), COUNT (column) AS Total
FROM yourexcelfile
GROUP BY (column), COUNT (column)

Upload that shite to the cloud and hammer out a uSQL statement


This post was edited on 4/6/17 at 1:20 am
Posted by Winston Cup
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Member since May 2016
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Posted on 4/5/17 at 11:53 pm to
Ouch.

Well that's just your opinion, man!!!
Posted by jefforize
Member since Feb 2008
46358 posts
Posted on 4/6/17 at 12:00 am to
Just joking. Nice tutorial. I hate excel.

The boring shite we do for money. What a time to be alive.
This post was edited on 4/6/17 at 12:04 am
Posted by lynxcat
Member since Jan 2008
25331 posts
Posted on 4/6/17 at 1:04 am to
Copy the column and paste then remove duplicates. This gets the 189 values.

Then use COUNTIF formula that references the 189 values and locks the array of 35K rows as the reference to count.

This is a very easy task TBH.
Posted by FLBooGoTigs1
Nocatee, FL.
Member since Jan 2008
59570 posts
Posted on 4/6/17 at 1:22 am to
quote:

this is a very easy task tbh


My baw is a baller now. Lynx laughs at these simple tasks now






This post was edited on 4/6/17 at 1:23 am
Posted by tokenBoiler
Lafayette, Indiana
Member since Aug 2012
5089 posts
Posted on 4/6/17 at 1:54 am to
quote:

Or... just dump it into a sql server and select distinct with count.

SELECT DISTINCT (column), COUNT (column) AS Total
FROM yourexcelfile
GROUP BY (column), COUNT (column)

Upload that shite to the cloud and hammer out a uSQL statement



Yeesh.

Save it as a csv, use either cut or awk to pick out the column and pipe it through sort | uniq -c | sort -n

About 20 seconds of work, and you're done.
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