Look up unique values
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The custom function below will return unique items from a range, you just supply the range you want to get the unique items from and the index number for the unique item you want to return. You can also use the function to return the count of uniqe values/items in a range.
Function UniqueItem(InputRange As Range, ItemNo As Long) As Variant
Dim cl As Range, cUnique As New Collection, cValue As Variant
Application.Volatile
On Error Resume Next
For Each cl In InputRange
If cl.Formula <> "" Then
cUnique.Add cl.Value, CStr(cl.Value)
End If
Next cl
UniqueItem = ""
If ItemNo = 0 Then
UniqueItem = cUnique.Count
Else
If ItemNo <= cUnique.Count Then
UniqueItem = cUnique(ItemNo)
End If
End If
On Error GoTo 0
End Function
Examples:Return the 2nd unique value in the range A1:A100: =UniqueItem(A1:A100,2) Return the count of unique values in the range A1:A100: =UniqueItem(A1:A100,0)