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    Formula to show words in colom

    Hello everyone,

    I need some help with a formula in Excel. Let's say this how a column looks like:

    a
    b
    b
    c
    d

    Is there a formula to get this outcome:

    a 1
    b 2
    c 1
    d 1

    If not, is there a way to create a list of words that are in a column?

    Thanks a lot!

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    Re: Formula to show words in colom

    You could easily use a pivot table to show a list of the distinct text values, with a count of occurences.
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    Re: Formula to show words in colom

    That's a start. Is it possible to see how many times are word is in the column? Now I only see what words are in there, but not how many times.

    Thanks a lot!

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    Re: Formula to show words in colom

    Add Field1 as both a row field and a value field, summarized by count.

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    Re: Formula to show words in colom

    Quote Originally Posted by OllyXLS View Post
    Add Field1 as both a row field and a value field, summarized by count.
    Worked out great. Thanks a lot !

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    Re: Formula to show words in colom

    If U nee d for formulas, assumes your data from cell A1 and down :

    put in B1
    =IF(COUNTIF(A:A,A1)=1,A1&1,A1&COUNTIF($A$1:A1,A1))

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