Grab the file I used in the video from here 👉 pages.xelplus.com/unique-list-file

@MySpreadsheetLab

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Leila !!

@rahulahuja1412

6 жыл бұрын

Expounded perfectly. Thank you. But doesn't work in Excel 2007 unless I go to each cell individually and enter F2, then F9.

@ModernPindawale

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you MA'am

@ModernPindawale

6 жыл бұрын

I will do it through your suggestion

@javadkhalilarjmandi3906

6 жыл бұрын

I saw the video that you suggested, your solution is the best, fastest, simplest and very easy, really thank you. although I must add:"ExcelIsFun" was awesome too.

Unique List & Sort Formulas - hardest ones around!!! Great work on the video !!!

@rajkathare123

6 жыл бұрын

ExcelIsFun Hello Sir, I do watch your excel videos daily... But some time I feel irritating because I don't understand them... But your videos are excellent 👍👍👍

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Mike :) yes, and also fun to tackle.

@michalroesler

3 жыл бұрын

yes.

Mind Blown! You are brilliant!! Thanks for this. I have looked for more than a decade for a way to do this. This is so elegant & much less klug-y than other solutions I have found. i have gotten partway there, before. but I rarely need to work with arrays. It gets fuzzy to try to recall this stuff. Thanks, again!!

Best explanation of how to use OFFSET for data validation I've seen yet, well done. I've combined this with UNIQUE and FILTER for a cascading drop down based on powerquery tables. I always forget exactly how to do it and have to look it up and this is the best one I've found so far. Named Ranges help alot too. Good stuff.

This is the most confusing topic so far and still you made it as simple as possible...Thank you so much Leila

I love how you went through your logic and thought process.

OMG! how did I miss this channel, one of the best excel tutor....subscribed!

@michalroesler

3 жыл бұрын

Animal...

Every time I watch your lessons, I end up being in awe with the level of your Excel mastery and the innovative solutions you bring on the table!! Kudos to your wisdom!

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. There is still so much to learn though :) that's what makes Excel fun. Thank you for your support.

@DrSougataBanerjee

6 жыл бұрын

True! 'Learning' is a never-ending journey.

everything is great even your way of speaking is so sweet. writing "thank you" is less than what you deserve

Easily the best tutorial. Though I couldn’t understand on the first instance, I just simply followed your steps and achieved the result

Hello Leila, I'm impressed with your knowledge of Excel and explanation of things in a calm, soothing tone. I wish growing up, I had teachers that taught in this style!

This is Excel brilliance. When you see the complexity of what you think is simple, you will see the simplicity of what you think is complex. Incredibly useful and flexible insight for exploiting a flatfile. Thank you!

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

I like that sentence! I'm glad you like the video. It's fun trying to solve cases like these. I'm glad there are others like yourself who also see the beauty in solving these challenges. Thank you!

You do far the best thorough videos. Great presentation, explanation and really structural. I am amazed and grateful. Thanks

It's OMG you really blow my mind the count if formula when you switch the rule of criteria as range wow i never thought of that thank you Ms. Leila

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome Ismail :)

Best video on KZread. I have wanted to do this for years on various projects and could never get anything working, so also worked around it. Just followed your example on one of my complex solutions and works like a charm even though I'm using Mac Office365. Many many thanks. Beautifully clear example and explanation.

@LeilaGharani

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Darren. Glad it worked on your Mac too :)

Hi Leila, I could create a Unique drop-down list, by using UNIQUE, FILTER and then created a combo box to get a Unique drop down. All thanks to your wonderful tutorials and the way you explain each and every function in detail.

@DanielFassa

Ай бұрын

thank you, that was what I was looking for. so much easier.

OMG. Nothing else just simply OMG! You have earned a new level of respect. Well done!

Another great tutorial with explanations I’ve never seen anywhere else. I have data validations with excess blanks everywhere. Those are going to be so much neater now. 👍🏻🤓

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Philip! Glad you like the tutorial & explanation :)

Very useful. I would have thought Excel would have something like this already built in, since it's likely to be needed quite often. But obviously they don't. So I'm glad to see you take this on. Thanks Leila. I'm definitely going to make use of this one.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. Yes - it would be great if the Excel team come up with a feature like this soon :)

I like your channel Leila. It is very easy to follow at the same time contents are very rich. Also you explain couple of different options to come to same answer. I really like it. Please keep posting new videos.

Impressive and super-smart way of tackling the problem! Love it. And you really are the perfect Index/Match teacher - your knowledge and application of these functions is really top-notch. Thank you for sharing... ...But I still wish for and I’m still counting the days until we get the new calc engine at work so that we can use dynamic arrays and the new functions to make this really easy to solve.

@LeilaGharani

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Geert! I can't wait either :)

Thanks again Leila, I was copying the formula while you were showing it. Now onto the next video to create a second dynamic list that is conditional upon the first list (depts. and sub-depts.) You made it really easy to follow - except the formula - never could have come up with that myself. So handy when you're under pressure to get things done!

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Dianne - glad this helps. Don't forget, you can also download the workbooks from the link provided (you get to the blog post and then scroll right down)

Interesting, I will have to give this a try! I had always used the following array formula to extract unique items from a range, where "data" is the same range reused over and over: {=INDEX(Data,SMALL(IF(MATCH(Data,Data,0)=ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&ROWS(Data) ) ) , MATCH(Data, Data, 0), "") , ROW(INDIRECT ( "1: "&ROWS (Data))))) }

Your 15-minutes video i watched about 1.5 hour to understand what am i doing when i repeat your actions on the screen. It's amazing. By the way, i already purchased two of your courses on Udemy, your solutions and approach to explain things in my Top3 Excel-Tutors Chart.

@LeilaGharani

4 жыл бұрын

Glad the video is helpful. I hope you enjoyed the courses.

This is the second time this video helps me out to solve a problem! I can't thank you enough!

Thanks laila, this is good solution for everyone still using the old version of excel.

This video is so awesome and yet very tricky. One has just keep practicing this. It's so much nesting that my head is still spinning. Gotta say that your way of eliminating the spaces in the list (after using iferror) was more straightforward than mine. I said counta range-countif(range,"")

Thank you although I am a naive in excel but your explanation are lucid and open the thought process, please keep posting your new videos.

I was having so much trouble understanding this concept but you helped me finally get it so thank you!!

Thank you very much, I used to use pivot tables, but this formula is worthy to be learned, it would be really handy when creating summary tables (similar to pivot tables) in which columns or rows are needed to be inserted and pivot table doesn't allow to do so.

Excellent One Mam to avoid CSE ... Your explanation and making the viewers think beyond ... Thanks a lot ....

Same, except one less index(). =IFERROR(INDEX($B$8:$B$22, MATCH(0,COUNTIF($C$7:C7, $B$8:$B$22), 0)),""). Still works, albeit infinitely slow with large data sets. One of the best videos I've seen.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great formula :)

This is amazing! If you remember I had asked this same question few months ago but I think it didn't described the requirement well enough. Thank you very much for this insightful video. Keep Rocking

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alok. Yes - Questions become videos :) Thanks for your comments and questions. They help me improve my knowledge as well.

Thank you. Your channel has every answer I am looking for to finish setting up my accounting system. Eleven thumbs up.

@LeilaGharani

5 жыл бұрын

I'm really happy to hear that! Thanks for the thumbs up :)

I’m thankful your channel exists but furious that it’s this complicated to do anything in excel. This is an example of using excel for something that a coded application attached to a database could do WAY better lol.

It looked complicated the first time I watched it but on my second run it totally makes sense. Thank you Leila

I looked for a tutorial like this for years. Thank you so much.

To get a unique list..we can trim the duplicates using advanced filter... but it doesn't meet requirement like automatic update.. Really nice work...

Leila Gharani... You are the best in excel. I watch most of your videos and it really helped me a lot in my professional life.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the nice comment! I'm really happy to hear you find the videos useful for your work :)

Omg, you are awesome. I been search for a formula like yours for about 3 months. This formula is exactly what I needed. Thank you!

@LeilaGharani

5 жыл бұрын

That's GREAT!

the array nature of countif is the unlocker here!! awesome Leila! Thanks!

Hi Leila, At the outset thank you for the wonderful video and above all your ideas. I simply admire your explanation of the formula. Simply superb!

Thanks Leila for all your wonderfull and informative videos, I learned a lot and with that I found an even more easy approach: Format your source as a table Put the following formula on a separate tab or hidden in cell A1 =SORT(UNIQUE(FILTER(Table2[Cities];Table2[Cities]""))) this formula returns a sorted list of unique cities without blanks from a table where it looks at the column Cities. Reference in the data validation list to cel A1#

@marcobanderas3306

2 жыл бұрын

These array-based functions are/were only available in Ghseets (+their workspace[corporate] equivalent) and I think added in Excel365 as well. The standard MS Office-based Excel is still in the woods - those functionsa re unavailable there. Similar case with Xlookup, countunique and a few other arrat formulae which have been available in Gsheet corporate for at least 2 years.

So soothing to listen to your voice and learned some useful skills at the same time !!!

@LeilaGharani

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear that.

One tip: Since wildcard characters you used only work with text, I suggest instead using "COUNTA - COUNTBLANK" that works with both text and numbers. Love your work!

@LeilaGharani

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip, Lawrence!

Mam ur concepts are out of this world ..new year starts with this magic....

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks Jacky for the very nice comment :)

This is brilliant formula! Thank you for sharing this!

Happy New Year Leila I have just started a project and this was the first hurdle I was trying to overcome. Can't wait to try this. Excellent video as ever

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

That's great! Glad this helps. Happy new year to you too Melvin.

Awesome lesson. Had been trying to figure out how to do this. Thank you.

Laila. I watch your videos with full attention but these sudden adds breaks it up. Thanks for sharing so nice videos. I hope you also give lectures on data science too.

Thanks Leila. A special thanks from Uganda

After few attempts I was Able to apply your tutorials, and I thank you for that. I just have another question, How to make it appear in an alphabetical arrangement, So that if I insert in between the list it will be arrange automatically in the list.

This is an ingenious way of using COUNTIF. Excellent tutorial.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rajesh! Glad you like it.

This is awesome. I've been trying to write a formula using CSE, but this is way much more efficient! Thanks for the tips! =)

@LeilaGharani

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. Glad the tutorial is helpful.

I have no words for this. How did you ever figure that combination of functions, including the reversed countif, out. I take my hat of. And the best part is that this is excactly what I was looking for. From now on, first research stop: Leila!

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad this is exactly what you were looking for! Thank you for your feedback and support. The knowledge I share and the solutions I find are a combination of watching, reading and learning from the other brilliant Excel online team members and also playing around and testing things out. There are so many interesting solutions out there - finding them and learning in the process is the fun part :)

Happy New Year, Very first Video of the year, "AMAZING". Once again, big namaskar from the bottom of my heart to my great, eminent, & beautiful teacher. Every video has got some very interesting tricks. Great work indeed.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gopala. Happy new year to you too! I'm very happy you like the videos. Thanks for your support & the very kind words.

@1gopalakrishnarao

6 жыл бұрын

I am the most lucky and fortunate disciple of your'., I am having the opportunity to view all your videos, though you are very far away from India. I pray the almighty to bless you with good health, prosperity and success in your professional/personal life, and to publish more number of videos for the benefit of all Excel users/learners/addicts in future without any hurdles.

Genius,Saves CSE and the use of pivot tables....Great video.....

Wow So much complexity for something you can do dynamically with a pivot table in 10 key strokes and no formulas

Some serious formula magic going on there, thanks!

WOW…This helped way more than the lookups. Big thanks.

Hi Very simple and easy to follow for excel users. Great work. Keep up the knowledge sharing

Before this video my excel sheet reached 30 MB ! Now it is only 2MB!! Thank you Leila.

Very useful take on alternative to Ctrl-Shift-Enter. Also, very well explained step-by-step.

@LeilaGharani

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you like it.

This is Perfect leila ! Great job God bless you

Oh God truly the new unique formula changes the entire game. Thanks this video though is excellent

@AndrewFrink

5 жыл бұрын

the new Unique formula is awesome if... everyone that will use your sheets has a new enough version of excel.

Simply genius. Anything you don't know in Excel?

Greate way to extract unique items, thank you very much Leila for this video.

I am real like your teaching, it is very clear and helpful for me. Thank you Leila!!! Btw, I come from Taiwan!!!

@LeilaGharani

4 жыл бұрын

That's great. I'm glad you like the tutorials. Greetings to Taiwan!

MIND BLOWN! Thank you so much for doing this!!!

Very helpful. I frequently learn useful applications of worksheet functions from you, many thanks.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to hear that Sam. Thanks for your comment.

Way to go Leila. Nice use of INDEX to avoid CSE.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. It's always fun to look for CSE free formula alternatives :)

Great work Leila! Clear explanation and excellent delivery. Do you happen to know if this fx can be used with two criteria: i.e. find the unique list subject to another condition in the same table?

Brilliant! I've been trying to solve this problem for too long! Thank you!

@LeilaGharani

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure David. I'm glad the tutorial is helpful.

Awesome, I worked on unique drop down list using CSE, but this method is really helpful. Thank you, Leila for Countif criteria "?*".

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Pradeep. It's fun to look for CSE free versions :)

Great video Leila, it helps me get a unique list without CSE.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it Douglas :)

Excellent stuff. I just tested it on a random spreadsheet I had open. Thing is.. it had about 100k rows. I was able to extract 36 individual values from one column out of all the datasets but it slowed the spreadsheet down quite a bit. This is probably not the intended use anyways, but a Pivot table might be easier in such cases. But still excellent to know it is possible to be done without Pivot and CSE. I am learning a lot from these and your Udemy courses.

@JeremyMcMahan

6 жыл бұрын

I did a similar thing yesterday using PowerQuery. For 100K rows that might be the route to go with. (I used the "Group By" transformation to get the unique list.)

@Utubemop

6 жыл бұрын

I have not used PowerQuery yet, but a standard Pivot table was easy to apply here and to extract the individual unique items.

@eriknegron1047

6 жыл бұрын

If looking for unique values, why not use Sort & Filter > Advanced > Unique Values only. Here is a video that explains it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mKGAyNatiqiudbw.html

@Utubemop

6 жыл бұрын

Because that needs manual interaction or the use of a macro, which is not wanted often. The specialty here is, that it uses standard formulas that do not need the use of arrays or macros. The list is dynamic and will be updated whenever the sheet is used, whereas the list created in the video you link to is static and needs to be manually updated. The use of the formula explained here can theoretically (if speed would be no issue) create a dynamic list for for a dropdown that has over a million entries if limited to a whole Excel column, there are maybe ways to even expand it. That can be used in a report or dashboard and users can i.e. adapt what they want to see with them having any experience in Excel while the person providing the report does not need to run a macro again to create the list, if new entries are added. The list created in the video is static and will need to be nmanually updated or the macro run again, if another sales person is added, whereas here they just automatically appear in the list and the resulting dropdown will show the new persons automatically.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it. Thanks for the feedback on the large data set. Things might speed up a little if we replace the iferror formula with an IF formula only. So if we first check how many unique items we have on the list in a separate cell (maybe with countif & sumproduct) we could then use an IF to check if the number of row results is less than or equal to this - then it should run the array, otherwise it shouldn't. The problem with iferror is it runs the array all the time and with a larger data set, it will probably slow things down....

@Leila, I must say, your trick is great and so easy to incorporate in any dashboard. Thanks for sharing your experience and tricks with us. Believe it or not, I have used this trick in some of my dashboards and it works great. There’s only one occasion, when the formula fails to extract unique records and that is with Blank row(s). Can you please look at some other trick or formula that can extract Unique records even if if the data has blank row or rows. Anyway thanks for your videos.

@LeilaGharani

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear you've successfully used this in your dashboards. Yes, you're right it will include one field with a 0 if there are many blanks in there. An easy way to overcome this, if the data has blanks is to start the data set from the 2nd row. Basically to insert a blank right after the table header. This will catch the first blank in data preparation and the dependent drop down list can be made from one cell down which ensures that subsequent blanks will not be in the middle of the unique list but always at the top and this one line can always be ignored. It's easier to handle like this than to create more complex formulas...

Great Trick Leila. I always used the match and Frequency to get a unique list with CSE. This was Great. :)

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks John. Match & frequency is great too.

I like the Lila division part!!! awesome

Thanks Leila, very useful & methodically explained.

Content is superb, shared with my colleagues, explained with ease

@LeilaGharani

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support and sharing the videos!

Outstanding video! you are awesome. Thank you so much for saving me a lot of time working this out.

Happy New Year, Leila. This is another very useful tutorial. Keep up the great work in 2018!

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew. Happy 2018 to you too.

This is fantastic, love your videos. Thanks for posting!

Nice formula, ❤️ your explanations!

thanks a lot for your videos for enhancing our excel skill.

Thank you for such an in depth example, it's extremely helpful! One issue I'm having that I can't seem to find an answer to is when my unique list contains numbers, whenever the worksheet is refreshed (either via F9 or when I edit a cell), the list sort of rearranges itself and my values (which are in numerical order in the source table) move themselves around. Refreshing the sheet again causes them to shift around yet again, although usually going back to the original configuration (numerical order). It only happens on a few of the value while the rest stay static, but since it changes their numerical order, the list nearly becomes useless. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I followed your examples, and many from the rest of the internet yet I continue to run into this problem.

Countif ?* just changed my life. Thank you! 😁

You know what.... you are genius and exceptional person

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Muhammad for the very kind comment. I am just someone who has fun with Excel :)

Awesome.. This is for me the most useful function that you could teach us, thank you so much!

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Hello Mam, I like very much the way you explain each and everything in detail.

@LeilaGharani

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Raj! I'm happy to hear that.

converting to a non cse formula is a stunner for me, thanks a lot

This is extremely helpful! I want to create a dropdown list using this technique, but also add one additional value that is not found in the unique list. Haven't found a way to do that yet..

WOW this just saved me so mutch time, tanks a lot! What a great channel BTW

Awesome! You teach clearly. Thank you

Thanks, I applied it in my office. Felt great thanks

thanks, Too complicated for me to understand and follow your formulas, you must be genius. 👍 I used VBA Dictionary which was more readable and much easier for me to follow.

Wow, This is perfect Tr. Leila. Thanks. Complicated though.

Thank you so much for this tutorial Leila!

@LeilaGharani

5 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome Aaron!

Brilliant and so helpful! I’m a fan of all your videos! Thank you!

@LeilaGharani

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support!