Count unique values
Count how many different customers, members or products a list has with COUNTA and UNIQUE, for the whole list or one group.
In this lesson
- Different values in a list:
=COUNTA(UNIQUE(C2:C37)). - For one group:
=COUNTA(UNIQUE(FILTER(C2:C37,E2:E37="North"))). - COUNTA alone counts every row, repeats included.
Try a free lesson first
Why your formula broke when you copied it
Lock a cell with $ so a formula keeps working when you copy it down.
Beginner · 7 min · Free, with no sign-up
Do the free lesson on your computer.
Send yourself the link and open it on a laptop or desktop.
On your computer, go tolearnford.com/go/39MP
This lesson is in the full Google Sheets course
US$149 once
Tax included. New lessons are added as they're written.
Get the full course, US$14930-day money-back guarantee if you've opened fewer than 10 paid lessons.
- All 215 Google Sheets lessons open today, and every new one as it's written.
- The Roadmap, Skills and all seven paths.
- A cheat sheet for every lesson you finish.
- Skill
- Dynamic arrays
- Stage
- Advanced
Where it sits in Dynamic arrays
- What "spilling" means9 min
- SORT and SORTBY11 min
- SEQUENCE9 min
- Count unique valuesThis lesson9 min
- Combine FILTER, SORT and UNIQUE11 min
- CHOOSECOLS and VSTACK10 min
The steps
9 steps: 3 explanations, 3 Do this, 3 questions, then Your turn.
Try a free lesson first
Why your formula broke when you copied it
Lock a cell with $ so a formula keeps working when you copy it down.
Beginner · 7 min · Free, with no sign-up
Do the free lesson on your computer.
Send yourself the link and open it on a laptop or desktop.
On your computer, go tolearnford.com/go/39MP