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    Consecutive Counts

    Hi there,

    I have a sheet that lists customers in column A and then each customers Distribution & Sales over a period of time. The spreadsheet then flags if the customer has sold out in any month. I now require a count of maximum consecutive sellouts for each customer. For example:

    Customer A S/O S/O nil nil S/O
    Customer B S/O S/O S/O nil nil
    Customer C nil S/O S/O S/O S/O

    In the above example Customer A would have 2, B 3 and C 4 sellouts. I'm looking at about 10K customers I require for each product.

    Hope someone can help!
    Last edited by Jarbugs; 01-22-2009 at 12:37 AM.

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    Counting max consecutive occurrences of a value

    With your sample data in A1:F3

    This ARRAY FORMULA, committed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER (instead
    of just ENTER) returns the max consecutive occurrences of "s/o" for
    Customer A

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    Copy I1 and paste into I2 and down as far as you need.

    Is that something you can work with?
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    Fantastic. May I understand the logic behind the last part of the formula?
    IF(B1:H1<>"s/o",COLUMN(B1:H1))

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    How FREQUENCY works in this situation

    The FREQUENCY function rounds test values UP to the next "bin" value, ignoring text and TRUE/FALSE values.

    Example:

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    I hope that helps

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