Display same amount of values when narrowing a column

crowds40

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Hi,

I hope my question isn't too complicated. So say in my column A I have:

blue
red
green
yellow
green
yellow
yellow
blue
...

Say in the end I have:
50 blue, 20 red, 100 green, and 180 yellow

If I am narrowing down the my amount of rows to just 100. How do I make it:
27 blue, 20 red, 27 green, 27 yellow
(I understand this is 101 which is fine or it could be 26 blue, 20 red, 27 green, 27 yellow so it uses the highest amounts to make it 100 if its easier to make a formula or macro)

Note that these amount will change each time I use excel. So next time I could start with:
15 blue, 30 red, 120 green, 200 yellow.

Again narrowing the amount to 100:
15 blue, 28 red, 28 green, 28 yellow (this equals 99, but to be 100 it could be 15 blue, 28 red, 28 green, 29 yellow)

So I would need a formula or macro which could display the same amount of colors, even if one of the colors is less then the average, to equal 100 total colors.
I hope this makes sense. I can try to explain further. Please help. Thank you.
 

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