Thanks Paul. The concatenation is a good idea so I can 'force' them to be considered as one in the list. Looks like I'm forced to used helper cells to complete the count? I don't believe you can pass an array argument into the concatenation function?
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Paul Schreiner <schreiner_p...@att.net> wrote: > There are several approaches. > Using Excel functions, I would concatenate the values; > =A2&"_"&B2 > which would result in: > *SN User* > 1001 25 1001_25 > 1002 25 1002_25 > 1003 26 1003_26 > 1001 25 1001_25 > 1004 26 1004_26 > > Then you can use your functions to count unique values of column C. > > You can do something similar using VBA... > Which approach do you want to take? > > *Paul* > ----------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > *“Do all the good you can,By all the means you can,In all the ways you > can,In all the places you can,At all the times you can,To all the people > you can,As long as ever you can.” - John Wesley* > ----------------------------------------- > > > On Monday, May 22, 2017 6:37 PM, MLT <mlthorn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I have a bit of a variation from the count unique values with 2 > criteria... in this case I have two columns: the first is a list of serial > numbers that does contain duplicates and the second column is the user > number that has used that serial number (also contains duplicates). > > For example... > > Col A Col B > *SN User* > 1001 25 > 1002 25 > 1003 26 > 1001 25 > 1004 26 > > this example would count 2 unique values for user 25, and 2 unique values > for 26. > > The examples I found had criteria for both columns, here the criteria > would only be applied against col B, where col A could be any value to get > counted, provided it was unique when combined with its corresponding user > in col B. > > Thanks for any help! > > Matt > -- > Are you =EXP(E:RT) or =NOT(EXP(E:RT)) in Excel? 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