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    Count the number of unique values in a column when a condition from another column is met

    Hi this is my first post. I have recently landed a job where i deal with excel a lot. I am preparing a report and i am unable to write a formula for counting some unique values.
    here is my dilemma.
    In colunm 'A' i have some repeating values and in column 'B' I have the 'type' for Column A's values. I want to write a formula where it checks the 'type' first and them count the number of unique values in colums 'A'

    Coumn A Column B
    Pr1 Soap
    Pr1 Soap
    Pr1 Soap
    Pr2 Food
    Pr2 Food
    Pr3 Cloth
    Pr4 Cloth
    Pr5 food

    so the formula should count the unique number of products in column A by checking its type in column B when I prepare a table of the number of products based on type.
    this should be my result
    Soap Food Cloth
    1 2 2
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    Advance appologies if my question is too confusing. I can do this by sorting the products by type and then using this formula SUMPRODUCT(1/COUNTIF(A2:A8,A2:A8)) but there is risk of the report going wrong if someone were to insert a row in the existing table.

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    Re: Count the number of unique values in a column when a condition from another column is

    Hello
    If you're happy to use array formulas (entered with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER), then try:

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    Here your sample data is in the range A2:B9. The hard coded "Soap" could be changed to a cell reference.

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    Re: Count the number of unique values in a column when a condition from another column is

    It workes absolutely fine
    Thank you very much

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    Re: Count the number of unique values in a column when a condition from another column is

    Non-array perhaps..

    =SUMPRODUCT(($B$2:$B$9="Soap")/(COUNTIFS($B$2:$B$9,$B$2:$B$9,$A$2:$A$9,$A$2:$A$9)))
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