I wonder if anyone has tried this before i have a large spreadsheet of
numbers which i need to find the most common numbers that appear in the
tabel so i am looking for a formula that will calculate one column at a
time.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Brad

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windsurferLA - 26 Nov 2005 20:35 GMT
> I wonder if anyone has tried this before i have a large spreadsheet of
> numbers which i need to find the most common numbers that appear in the
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> Thanks
> Brad
seems to me that you want to construct a histogram. I believe Excel has
a built in histogram routine.
Gary''s Student - 26 Nov 2005 21:06 GMT
If your numbers are in column A ( say A1:A100 )then =MODE(A1:A100) will give
you the most common number.

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> I wonder if anyone has tried this before i have a large spreadsheet of
> numbers which i need to find the most common numbers that appear in the
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> Thanks
> Brad
windsurferLA - 27 Nov 2005 06:08 GMT
> I wonder if anyone has tried this before i have a large spreadsheet of
> numbers which i need to find the most common numbers that appear in the
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> Thanks
> Brad
Expanding on my original reply...
You need to first load the analysis toolpack by going to tools / Add-ins
and selecting "Analysis Toolpack"
Then you need to follow instructions under Tools | Data Analysis |
Histogram.
Before it will generate the histogram, you need to indicate the size of
the bins into which the data tallies are to be placed. For example, a
table showing 100, 1000, 10000 would have three bins, for number of
occurances of under 100, for number of occurances over 100 by under 1000
, and so on.
bradrob - 28 Nov 2005 09:00 GMT
That all worked greast, done exactly what i needed.
thanks
Brad

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