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- Extracting Initials from Names using Excel Formulas 33 Comments [September 02]
- Micro Charting in Excel – 7 Alternatives Reviewed 14 Comments [September 05]
- Building Sexy Dashboards using Excel – 4 Part tutorial 11 Comments [September 10]
- Petal Charts – Debatable Alternative to Radar Charts 12 Comments [September 18]
- Brilliant and Fun to Watch – Microsoft I am a PC ads 7 Comments [September 19]
- Fuzzy Searching in Excel – Handling Spelling Mistakes 6 Comments [September 25]
- Love & Sex – 10 Infographics that can WOW you 2 Comments [September 26]
- Cleaning up Phone Numbers Using Excel 3 Comments [September 30]
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13 Responses to “Data Validation using an Unsorted column with Duplicate Entries as a Source List”
Pivot Table will involve manual intervention; hence I prefer to use the 'countif remove duplicate trick' along with 'text sorting formula trick; then using the offset with len to name the final range for validation.
if using the pivot table, set the sort to Ascending, so the list in the validation cell comes back alphabetically.
Hui: Brillant neat idea.
Vipul: I am intrigued by what you are saying. Please is it possible to show us how it can be done, because as u said Hui's method requires user intervention.
Thks to PHD and all
K
Table names dont work directly inside Data validation.
You will have to define a name and point it to the table name and then use the name inside validation
Eg MyClient : Refers to :=Table1[Client]
And then in the list validation say = MyClient
Kieranz,
Pls download the sample here http://cid-e98339d969073094.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/data-validation-unsorted-list-example.xls
Off course there are many other ways of doing the same and integrating the formulae in multiple columns into one.
Pls refer to column FGHI in that file. Cell G4 is where my validation is.
Vipul:
Many thks, will study it latter.
Rgds
K
[...] to chandoo for the idea of getting unique list using Pivot tables. Â What we do is that create a pivot table [...]
@Vipul:
Thanks, that was awesome! 🙂
@Playercharlie Happy to hear that 🙂
Great contribution, Hui. Solved a problem of many years!
Thanks to you, A LOT
Hi Hui,
Greeting
hope you are doing well.
I'm interested to send you a private vba excel file which i need to show detail of pivot in new workbook instead of showing in same workbook as new sheet.
Please contact me on muhammed.ye@gmail.com
Best Regards