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Hi,

I have a table that contains sales data. The table has various fields that users use to filter the data. The first column in the table is the customer account number. This is a text field. There are multiple rows of data for each customer. 

When a user filters the table I want to show the unique number of customers that the filtered data relates to. How do you count the customer account field to show the unique number of values?

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You could try something like:

 

=COUNTA(UNIQUE(FILTER(Table1[Column1],SUBTOTAL(103,OFFSET(Table1[Column11],ROW(Table1[Column1])-MIN(ROW(Table1[Column1])),0,1,1))=1)))

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Hi Velouria,

Thanks for the feedback I will give it a try. I did actually find another way that works for me. I first of all added a column to my table which indicates if the row is visible when the table is filtered. I called the column "Visible". The formula, =SUBTOTAL(3,[@Customer]), points to the Customer field. It returns 1 if the row is visible or 0 if not.

I then added the following formula to count the number of customers:

=COUNTA(UNIQUE(FILTER(Table_Sales[Customer],Table_Sales[Visible])))

If the table is then filtered on any of the other fields it counts the unique number of customers displayed.

I have attached an example file to illustrate this.

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That's exactly the approach the formula I suggested uses, but without the helper column. If the helper column is OK, it's probably a better option. 🙂

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