counting cells but excluding duplicates

RG@FMB

I have a list of project numbers that I need to count, the issue is that the different people may be working on different areas of the same project so duplicates need to be automatically excluded. 

Paul Newcome

Are you trying to count the names or the project numbers?

Corinne Flanagan

Hello,

There isn't built in functionality to identify or exclude duplicates. See this community post from January where another Community member has posted a workaround using a formula: https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/identifying-duplicates-with…

Check out this article from our Help Center for more information on creating formulas:   https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/2476171-create-and-edit-formulas-in-smartsheet

A listing of all available Smartsheet functions can be found here: https://help.smartsheet.com/functions  

When you have a moment, please submit a product enhancement request to let our Product team know that you'd like the ability to automatically identify duplicates on a sheet. The product enhancement request form is located in the Quick Links section to the right of this discussion.

 

Paul Newcome

The subject of getting a count of entries excluding duplicates has been coming up a lot lately.

 

The first link in Corrine's post here is only a way to identify duplicates. It sounds like you are looking more for a way to identify them and count only one entry of a duplicate plus the unique entries.

 

Here is a link to another post that should help you with this.

 

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/count-unique-words

 

If you look at my comment on that post, you will see another link with a different variation of the same.

 

If you can give more details, I may be able to help with a more specific solution to your case.