In this post I shall present a method for generating a unique, alphabetical list in a single column from data contained within a contiguous range comprising several columns.
For example, given the dataset below in A2:E5, we will return that list beginning in cell G1:
Given the list below in A1:A10, we may wish to create a list of unique, single words from that list, as per column B here.
We can do this with the following set-up: More…
Last week I set readers the challenge which can be found here.
This one turns out to be a good deal more complex than it at first appears, and so perhaps not surprisingly no correct results were received..
GreasySpot at first thought that Advanced Filter would be a viable solution, but quickly realised that it wasn’t actually appropriate here. Besides, as I mentioned, the idea of this (and of all these challenges in fact) is to try to achieve the results using worksheet formulas alone.
So how can we achieve our desired results?
