Creating Formula to identify repetitions of numbers

**Rodh** · 09-23-2012, 09:32 PM

Dear Users,

I have written a spreadsheet to record product return data for a retail store. Each customer has a unique customer number and I'd like the cell of that number to change colour if the customer has returned items more then twice. If I can't colour code the cell, I'd like a count of how many times the customer number has been recorded.

Any help would be appreciated!
Rod

**benishiryo** · 09-23-2012, 11:29 PM

hi Rodh, welcome to the forum. assuming the unique customer number is in A1:A10, select them & go to Home -> Conditional Formatting -> New Rule -> Use a formula to determine which cells to format -> Format values where this formula is true:
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$10,$A1)>2

**Rodh** · 09-24-2012, 06:27 AM

Thanks!
Just brilliant. Just want I wanted to do.

Many thanks

Rod

**Cutter** · 09-24-2012, 07:09 PM

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