Sorting numbers, please help?

[Guest]

I ahve a spreadsheet that contains 5 columns of whole numbers rangeing from 1
to 100. I need to count how many times each number appears in each column or
even in all 5 columns together. Ex. the number 1 appears 252 times, etc.

Does anyone know how to sort the data that way? I have imported into an
access table as well if that's easier.

Please help?

 

[Guest]

you could use CountIf function on excel.
e.g CountIF("A1:A500", 1) which will should how many time 1 appear from
range (A1 to A500).

 

[Bryan Hessey]

Hopefully someone has a better method, but:

Assuming that you want to keep the results in 5 columns to match th
same number of rows, I have used A1 to E9 as my range, you will need t
adjust the range for the number of rows that you have.

assuming that columns G to K are clear, in G1 put
=SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW())&"
"&COUNTIF($A$1:$E$9,SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW()))

in H1 put
=SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW()+9)&"
"&COUNTIF($A$1:$E$9,SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW()+9))

in I1 put
=SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW()+18)&"
"&COUNTIF($A$1:$E$9,SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW()+18))

in J1 put
=SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW()+27)&"
"&COUNTIF($A$1:$E$9,SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW()+27))

in K1 put
=SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW()+36)&"
"&COUNTIF($A$1:$E$9,SMALL($A$1:$E$9,ROW()+36))

(adjust the numbers 9, 18, 27 & 36 accordingly)

Formula-drag those to the number of rows for which you have data.

(you can use just one column and drag it 5 times the number of rows)


Hope this helps

 

[Bryan Hessey]

thanks Dan,

or even =Countif(A$1:E$999,Row()) and copy that down 100 rows

(for data 1 to 100)