Thread: Deleting Rows with Too Many of the Same Number

I have seven columns, A-G. All of these columns have different quantities of whole numbers 1-7. I'd like to make a macro to go through row by row and delete any rows that have more than 4 of the same numbers in the same row. How would I go about doing this?

There's probably an easier way but this should get the job done:

Consider haivng an integer variable, one for each of the values from 1-7 to store the occurance of the particular value in a row.
At the end of the row, if any of the variables have a value of 4 or greater then delete the row.

of course this should be looped for each row and the variables are reset at the beginning of a new iteration.

Thats how I would do it. hope it helps.

Thanks, I had thought about that, except I need to conserve system resources. This program will be run on a LOT of rows, and I suspect it will crash the computer or at least run extremely slowly.

How about putting this in H1
=MAX(COUNTIF(A1:g1,A1:g1))
This is an array formula. Hit ctrl-shift-enter instead of enter. If you do it
correctly, excel will wrap curly brackets {} around your formula. (don't type
them yourself.)

And drag down.

Now you can just filter by that column to show >4 and delete the visible rows.

If you need a macro, you could record one when you did it manually.

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> I have seven columns, A-G. All of these columns have different
> quantities of whole numbers 1-7. I'd like to make a macro to go through
> row by row and delete any rows that have more than 4 of the same numbers
> in the same row. How would I go about doing this?
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Thank you, that should solve my problem.