Is there anything faster than countif?

CROY1985

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I have a some ID numbers in column C than run for approx 75k rows.
In another column i have the following formulae:

=COUNTIF($C$3:$C$75174,C3)

I have calculation set to manual, but it is very slow when i do calculate. Is there a more efficient way of counting the instances of each ID?


Many thanks!

Chris
 

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COUNTIF is a quick function. I would guess you must have a lot of other formulae in the spreadsheet. Try calculating that sheet only: Formulas > Calculation > Calculate Sheet
 
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Thanks for the responses, i feared that countif was the most efficient via formula method.

Andrew, i cant use a pivot table for this specific part of the task but will be able to once i clear the first few hurdles - I will just have to persevere with countif for now.

Many thanks
 
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