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Look Up and Compare Data In A Column

Which function do you use to look up a range of entries and determine whether the same text / number appears in that range and identify how many times it appears?

RE: Look Up and Compare Data In A Column

Hi Lisa,

Thank you for your question. You would be requiring the COUNTIF Function with the following arguements: =COUNTIF(Range,Criteria)

eg Range A2:A10 contains repeating values for regions in a transaction list, you want to know how many purchases in North region.

=COUNTIF(A2:A10,"North")

Hope this helps

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Convert Text to Columns in Excel 2010

If you have a cell in your Excel spreadsheet that contains a lot of text and you want to divide it into separate columns, this can only be done if there is a logical character which separates the text, for example, a comma.

Select the cells you would like to convert. On the Data tab, click Text to Columns. Choose the format of your current data.

Select Delimited if the text contains a logical character otherwise select Fixed Width if there are a certain number of spaces between each field.

Click Next when a preview of the data appears. Then select the type of character that separates the various fields. If the character is not listed, select Other and enter the character.

Click Next again and then choose the format for each of the columns. Select the column heading in the Data preview and then select a data type from the Column data format options.

Click Finish and the text will appear in several columns.

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