Thankfully, Microsoft Excel's COUNTIF formula swoops in to save the day. It lets you count cells based on specific text or conditions, turning your spreadsheet chaos into organized data magic.

If you are unfamiliar with inputting formulas into Microsoft Excel, the much simpler way to get the number of unique values in an Excel column is through a filter.

If you want to count the frequency of a text in Excel, you can use the Countif function. This article explains the step-by-step procedure.

When counting unique values in Microsoft Excel, use UNIQUE() as a helper function and avoid more complicated expressions.

Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.