How can I tally unique entries in a column?

eggplant_casserole

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I have a worksheet (Microsoft 365 Family) with a long list of items (over 2,000). It is an inventory. The items are stored in various locations, with a column for each location. Some items will be duplicated in multiple locations.

The entry in the column differs depending on condition. It may simply be a YES but it could say INCOMPLETE or something like that. Consequently, I used COUNTA to do a count of how many items are in a location.

What I want to do is have a record of how many unique items there are in a location (that is, a cell in the column is counted if it isn't blank and if its neighbouring cell in the other qualifying columns is blank). How do I go about this? As an example:

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Here, the relevant columns are D to H, and rows 2 to 11. The last row should read 1, 1, 2, 2, 1 as there are duplicates in rows 2, 5 and 10.

It might also be useful to have a tally of how many items are duplicated in more than one location, which would obviously be one result rather than a result per column.

Thanks in advance!
 

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Something like this maybe?
Book1
CDEFGH
23YESYESYES
31YES
41YES
52YESYES
61YES
71YES
81YES
91YES
102YESYES
111YES
1211221
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
C2:C11C2=COUNTA(D2:H2)
D12:H12D12=COUNTIFS($C$2:$C$11,1,D$2:D$11,"<>")
 
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