Virtual Counting Of Conditional Formatting

nonwally

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In all the samples of arrays and sumproducts I've seen, most seem to use fixed criteria which doesn't help me.

Here is a brief sample of the problem I am faced with

Row 1 is a count / results row. No data here (yet). This is where the a successful formula will go.

Row 2 is for headings (A to E): Number, Select 1, Select 2, Select 3, Select 4

Rows 3 to 36, column A: A number, decimal, unsorted, non-unique (duplicates but unique numbers can also be found).

In the other columns, the user selects 0 or 1 (unselected or selected). Each of these columns works independantly of the other select columns.

I have a working conditional formula that detects if a duplicate number is selected (1) more than once in any given select column (B to E).
The working conditional formula is:
=SUMPRODUCT(($A$3:$A$36=$A3)*(B$3:B$36<>0))>1

It works beautifully, turning cells red when duplicate numbers are selected.

Now the problem ...

Up in row 1, I, effectively & virtually, want to count the number of times the conditional formula is triggered.

I know that accessing conditional formulas is a bit on the difficult side, so instead I am trying to replicate the conditional formula so it produces a count of simulated conditional triggers for each column B to E.

So if 2 or more rows have a number of 123.45 in column A, and all cells in column B are 0 ...

When the user enters a 1 alongside a 123.45, 0 is still shown by the required formula ...

However when a 1 is entered alongside another 123.45, a 1 is shown by the required formula.

Please note I cannot test for 123.45 in the application, because that will not produce the dynamic result I require. I am trying to prevent duplicate numbers being selected more than once.

Please help :)
TIA
 

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Hi nonwally
Welcome to the board

Try for column B:

=SUM(--(FREQUENCY(IF(B$3:B$36>0,$A$3:$A$36),IF(B$3:B$36>0,$A$3:$A$36))>1))

This in an array formula and so MUST be confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and not just ENTER.
 
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Hey that works !!!

I thought it might be an array solution, tried a few different ways, but never tried the frequency formula.

Many thanks. :)
 
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