Need a formaula  to look at an entire column and count the number of 
different times (say date of product)

Thanks
-- 
ce

Do you mean a unique count..=COUNT() will give you a total count of numeric 
values (including date, time, numbers etc; ). 

Why dont you post few samples...

"Curtis" wrote:

> Need a formaula  to look at an entire column and count the number of 
> different times (say date of product)
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> ce

Yes sorry unique count.

If I have Products in column b

apples
apples
peach
grape
lemon

I want to count the number of unique products as in this case the result 
would be 4
-- 
ce


"Jackpot" wrote:

> Do you mean a unique count..=COUNT() will give you a total count of numeric 
> values (including date, time, numbers etc; ). 
> 
> Why dont you post few samples...
> 
> "Curtis" wrote:
> 
> > Need a formaula  to look at an entire column and count the number of 
> > different times (say date of product)
> > 
> > Thanks
> > -- 
> > ce

Try the below.

=SUMPRODUCT((B1:B20<>"")/COUNTIF(B1:B20,B1:B20&""))


"Curtis" wrote:

> Yes sorry unique count.
> 
> If I have Products in column b
> 
> apples
> apples
> peach
> grape
> lemon
> 
> I want to count the number of unique products as in this case the result 
> would be 4
> -- 
> ce
> 
> 
> "Jackpot" wrote:
> 
> > Do you mean a unique count..=COUNT() will give you a total count of numeric 
> > values (including date, time, numbers etc; ). 
> > 
> > Why dont you post few samples...
> > 
> > "Curtis" wrote:
> > 
> > > Need a formaula  to look at an entire column and count the number of 
> > > different times (say date of product)
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > -- 
> > > ce

If you wanted to count the number of unique entries in that range, you could use
a formula like:

=sumproduct((a1:a10<>"")/countif(a1:a10,a1:a10&""))
(you can only use the entire column in xl2007)

Curtis wrote:
> 
> Need a formaula  to look at an entire column and count the number of
> different times (say date of product)
> 
> Thanks
> --
> ce

-- 

Dave Peterson