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Determine number of rows and assign name to each.

Hi Experts

Need some assistance with a task. I have several delivery routes that have various number of stops on each. What I need to do is to determine the number of stops per route, divide it by 4 and then assign an alpha letter to each segment. All of our delivery routes have a different number of stops so that is not static. Below is a very simple idea of what I am trying to do. One column is the stop number and the next is the segment letter (sorry the alpha didn't line-up under the word "segment".
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

VALUE      SEGMENT
1      A
2      A
3      A
4      B
5      B
6      B
7      C
8      C
9      C
10      D
11      D
12      D

Anastasia D. Gavanas

Can you provide with an example of stops and routes and expected result?
A countif or sumif or something like that could work if we get the logic :)

spudmcc

ASKER

Here is a simple example of what I am trying to get to.

Thanks
EXAMPLE.xlsx

Rob Henson

See attached.

Will this be done separately for each delivery route or will there also be a route identifier in the list?

Thanks
Rob H
Stops.xlsx

Rob Henson

I hadn't refreshed, your last comment answers my question; ignore my comment for now, I will update it.

Thanks
Rob H

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spudmcc

ASKER

Works perfectly for what I need it for. Thank you so much for your quick and spot-on response.

Andy

spudmcc

ASKER

Thank you so much for your quick and spot-on response.

Andy

Rob Henson

Glad to be of assistance.

For cases like Route 3 where it doesn't divide wholly by 4; if you want the last stop to be no more than D then adjust the formula to:

=IF(A2<>A1,"A",IF(MOD(B1,FLOOR(COUNTIF(A:A,A2),4)/4)>0,C1,CHAR(MIN(68,CODE(C1)+1))))

If you need any explanation for the formula, please let me know.

Thanks
Rob H

spudmcc

ASKER

Hi Rob

Something came up that I didn't think about before...what if the route has fewer than 4 stops. We have a handful of routes that have 2 or 3 stops only. With your formula it is giving us a #div/0 error.

Any ideas??

Andy

Rob Henson

Try this:

=IF(A2<>A1,"A",IF(MOD(B1,FLOOR(COUNTIF(A:A,A2),MIN(COUNTIF(A:A,A2),4))/MIN(COUNTIF(A:A,A2),4))>0,C1,CHAR(MIN(68,CODE(C1)+1))))

Note the MIN statement in bold, uses lower of COUNT for each route and 4

spudmcc

ASKER

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Works perfectly.

Andy