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    ordering words by frequency

    Apologies in advance for what may be a simple question, but I am not a regular Excel user.

    I have 31 daunting pages of SAP terms in English with their German equivalent Excel translations. My task is to design a language workshop for my German students.

    I want to know how Excel can (if possible) rearrange my pages so the words or terms appear in order of frequency of appearance.

    Many thanks in advance for any help you can give.

    Cheers,

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    Re: ordering words by frequency

    Can you provide an example?
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    Re: ordering words by frequency

    Thanks for the reply.

    Here are a few example pages from the original dictionary to give you an idea. I've grouped together all the codes in column C - that 'trimmed' file is on my office computer.

    The bottom line is that I am looking for the most frequent words either in German or English as a basis of designing the language course.
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    Re: ordering words by frequency

    In the example, I've copied column A to column F and used the remove duplicates tool on the data ribbon to get unique values. I've then used a COUNTIF function to calculate the frequency.

    Does this get you any closer.

    An example of what you would like the output to look like would be useful.
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