Question

I have a text column with repeated values, for example:

   |    A    |  ---|---------|  1 | emails  |  2 |  foo    |  3 |  foo    |  4 |  bar    |  5 |  bar    |  6 |  stuff  |  7 |  stuff  |  8 |  stuff  | 

What I would like to do is to have another column with numbers, so that each number matches the value in the first column, for example:

   |    A    |    B    |  ---|---------|---------|  1 | emails  | number  |  2 |  foo    |    1    |  3 |  foo    |    1    |  4 |  bar    |    2    |  5 |  bar    |    2    |  6 |  stuff  |    3    |  7 |  stuff  |    3    |  8 |  stuff  |    3    | 

Answer 1

Depending on what you mean by value –

If you mean ‘repeating group’ then a macro like this may work –

 Sub Check()     Dim start As Integer     start = 1     For Row = 2 To 12         Cells.Item(Row, 2) = start         If Cells.Item(Row, 1) <> Cells.Item(Row + 1, 1) Then             start = start + 1         End If     Next End Sub 

If you mean 'take the number at the end of each value in column A' then this may work -

 Sub Check()     Dim i As Integer     Dim value As String     Dim number As String     Dim c As String     For Row = 2 To 12         number = ''         value = Cells.Item(Row, 1)         For i = 1 To Len(value)             c = Mid(value, i, 1)             If IsNumeric(c) Then                 number = number & c             End If         Next         Cells.Item(Row, 2) = number     Next End Sub 

Edit - According to the OP's comment, I'm guessing they mean 'repeating group' but I'll leave both code samples here.

Edit - Copy and paste the code into the excel Visual Basic Editor and click play. Replace the constants 2 and 12 with the values of your start and end rows.