Formula to avoid the count of duplicate text entries
Hello,
In one of my sheets, I have the formula to count the number of partners (existing and new). But I need to avoid the count of multiple entries for the partner names. See the image below:
As you may notice the Partner - "GTA" was selected in two different rows and therefore it is counted twice in the # Partners column. Similarly, "Precision Health Coalition-Global (NGO in Karachi)" is counted twice in the # Partners column as it is being selected in two separate rows.
Please provide a workaround to avoid the count for these duplicate text entries in the # Partners column.
The current column formula for the # Partners Column is -
=COUNTM([Partners (existing)]@row) + COUNTM([#New Partners 2022]@row)
Thank you,
Sidd
Answers
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Hi @SiddV47
What I would do here is join together all of your cells in that multi-select column into one multi-select cell. This will automatically merge duplicate selections as 1 selection, so you can COUNTM just the new, merged cell!
=JOIN([Partners (existing)]:[Partners (existing)], CHAR(10))
Cheers,
Genevieve
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