Atul,
Unfortunately that will not work for my application. What I'm trying
to do is dynamically create this list without the user's
intervention. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Dave
On Nov 6, 6:46 am, "SINGHAL, ATUL." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Using advanced filter can solve your problem. Use Data-Filter-Advanced
> Filter (Unique records only must be ticked) and give the reference of the
> cell you wanna place your filtered data. Then you can sort the data.
> File is enclosed for your reference.
>
> Regards
> CA. Atul Singhal
>
>
>
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> Sent: November 06, 2008 2:04 AM
> To: MS Excel & VBA Macros
> Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ Use of Array Formula or other method to create
>
> deduplicated list of text values?
>
> Ladies & Gents:
>
> I’m an experienced excel user (10+ years) and have encountered a
> problem that I cannot figure out. I’m creating a tool where there is
> a free text area where the users will input a list of locations (up to
> 60 values that can repeat and are in no particular order - some cells
> can be blank as well). Various analysis will be done on this data on
> a row by row basis and I need to create a list of these locations
> which is deduplicated and alphabetized on another sheet for summary
> calculations. I know that utilizing crystal reports one can utilize
> their array formulas to do a similar thing, but I cannot figure out
> how to do this in excel.
>
> Below is an example of the data:
>
> Washington, DC
> Arlington, VA
> Washington, DC
> Washington, DC
> Washington, DC
> Cary, NC
> Paris, FR
> London, UK
> Raleigh, NC
> Raleigh, NC
> Atlanta, GA
> Raleigh, NC
>
> The output I’m looking for is:
>
> Arlington, VA
> Atlanta, GA
> Cary, NC
> London, UK
> Paris, FR
> Raleigh, NC
> Washington, DC
>
> Ideally I’d like this to be formula driven rather than macro driven.
> I know that if I do my summary in a pivot table I can accomplish much
> the same thing but would like to avoid that as well.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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