It is quite easy for you to get unique value where there are so many duplicates, especially if you would like to paste them in a new location. We are going to count unique values together.
Have a data with duplicates.
Select the range of cells, or have it all in a table.
Advanced Filter
Click on Data Tab (1), and choose Advanced (2) in Sort & Filter.
Click yes
Click copy to another location (1), where you want to copy it to (2), check on the unique records only (3).
List Range: =&A&1:&A&14
Note: If the cells you choose in step 2 aren’t large enough to contain all the unique numbers, Excel will automatically enlarge them.
Unique Values:
Sumproduct Formula
Alternative solution would be to use Sumproduct function combined with Countif function.
The formula to copy paste is: =SUMPRODUCT(1/COUNTIF(A2:A14,A2:A14)) where A2:A14 is the range of data set.
Sum Formula
Another method to count unique values is a Sum function combined with Countif function again.
The formula is as follows: {=SUM(1/COUNTIF(A2:A14,A2:A14))}
For sure you have noticed curly braces. The formula is an array formula so to enter that you need to use CTRL + SHIFT + Enter buttons.
As you can see there is a possible that data in your tables or reports will be duplicated. To extract only distinct/unique data like products/employee/companies/cities etc. just use this trick.
You can also count distinct values in pivot table.
