Assign certain nr. to a combo of def. variables until a new combo appears then change nr

Dear all,

I am not at all an excel expert and hope that someone will be able to help me on this. Thanks in advance for that. I am sure it aint a great deal for you guys.
So that is the deal. I have a two column excel sheet with, each raw containing a Combo of a true and false argument. The possible combinations in my case are "only" true&false, false&false and false&true.F
For example:

Colum1 Colum2 Colum3
True False
False False
False False
False False
False False
False True
False False
False False
False False
False False
False False
True False
False False
False False

Now I would like to have a number assigned to each combination in the third column. Lets say nr. 1 to the True&False Combo. The crutial Point is now that I want nr. 1 to be assigned as well to the raws to come after a True&False Combo is detected, until there is a False&True Combo given. The later situation would leads to the nr. 2 being assigned next to this Combo (in the third column). So again Nr. 2 would be assigned to all the following raws, as Long as there is a True&False Combo identified again, what leads to Nr. 1 being assigned to column 3 again and so on.
So for the example above this would mean the following outcome:

Colum1 Colum2 Colum3
True False 1
False False 1
False False 1
False False 1
False False 1
False True 2
False False 2
False False 2
False False 2
False False 2
False False 2
True False 1
False False 1
False False 1


I hope I was clear enough and this can be constructed somehow. Otherwise I have a huge Problem

Greetings

Alf

Problem here is that there is no direction of what should happen if the first combo is false/false? If that is not a issue, that is if the first combo will always be false/true or true/false, then the following formulas will do what you want:

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for the first pair and

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for the second and down.
If you would put a blank row at the top of your combo columns then you would only need the second formula as shown in the attached file.

Combo counts.xlsx

Hope this helps.

First of all great work! Your provided excel sheet works perfectly. Many thanks for that! Also good starting remark. Is it possible that column 3 starts to assign either nr. 1 or nr. 2 not before there is any true in one of the two first columns. So as an example:

Column1 Column2 Column 3
false false 0
false false 0
false false 0
true false 1
false false 1
false true 2
false false 2
false false 2
true false 1
false false 1
etc.

Greetings,

Alf

You could change the formula to:

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The OR(C1="",C1=0) part takes care of the case where A2 and B2 are FALSE and C1 is in the empty row, or the case where the cell above already has a value of zero.

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Dear JeteMc

First of all thanks for replying again. Could you again please send me short excel sheet with the formula in it? I can not fully follow the abovementioned add-on.
Thanks upfront for that. I will change threads ticker to solved afterwards.

Greetings

Here is the file using the formula from post #4:

Combo counts.xlsx

Hope this helps.