One way
The assumes your locations in Column A
sales in column B
Put another list of locations somewhere, in this case I used column C
starting in C1 then this formula in D1
=SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$A$12=C1)*($B$1:$B$12))
Drag down to the same length as column C The select columns C & D and sort
on D descending
Mike
Drag this
> I'm trying to get the top ten ranking locations based on the sum of
> the sales. The real list is 1000s of entries so here is an example of
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> How do I do this in a systematic way with a formula? Thanks for your
> help in advance.