Count total number of different ID values in a Column

IainClover

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I have searched the forum threads, but can't find an answer to what I assume is a relatively easy question. I have a column of ID values, which are a mix of text and numbers.

I am using Office 2013.

ie Column is A2:A100
ID values will be A123, B254, A123, A287 etc etc ... so an ID might appear more than once

Counting the total number of entries, in the column, is straight forward, but in Cell A101, I want to put a formula that counts the total number of differing or rather different ID values, so that the total only counts each different ID, once.

Does this make sense ???
 

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Do you have any blank cells in A2:A100?
 
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In that case try
Excel Formula:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(FREQUENCY(IF(A2:A100<>"",MATCH(A2:A100,A2:A100,0)),ROW(A2:A100)-ROW(A2)+1)>0))
 
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In that case try
Excel Formula:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(FREQUENCY(IF(A2:A100<>"",MATCH(A2:A100,A2:A100,0)),ROW(A2:A100)-ROW(A2)+1)>0))


Thank you for your help, now unfortunately I get "#Value!"

Sorry to be a pain, but I couldn't find anything else in the threads that worked, hence my question
 
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Do you have any #VALUE! errors in A2:A100?
 
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Do you have any cells with more than 255 characters?
 
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