Issues with Capitalisation

[MKGIA]

Hi All, hoping for some help, many thanks in advance.

So I have a 13 sheet petty cash sheet. 1 Sheet per month, and 1 summary page.

On the summary page I have a Query function that gives me a weekly list of purchases made (read from manual entries on the monthly pages), this is still shown by purchase. Ie, today I bought 2 loaves of bread, yesterday was 3 loaves of bread and a lemon.

Also on this page I also have a product spotlight summary which reads the week and countifs it, so rather than entry by entry I can quickly see this last week I bought 7 loaves of bread total. This is down with a =unique and sumif functions.

However, I've just seen that last week, we bought 7 loaves of bread, but in the weekly product spotlight it says i bought "Bread x 7 £7.00" AND "bread x 7 £7.00" - so the unique function is case sensitive but the sumifs are not, so the 7 loaves are counted twice as some entries are made with a capital and some aren't.

I've tried adding a proper function, =unique(proper(range)) gave me a blank and =proper(unique(range)) gave me one correct answer but didn't autofill downwards with everything else I bought, just whatever the first item was.

Any help would be great, thanks!

G

 

[RoryA]

Assuming you are using Google Sheets, you'd need:

=arrayformula(unique(proper(range)))

to get all the results

 

[MKGIA]

Thank you so much, that has solved it!

But, unintended side effect, I'm getting an extra line of blank data.

So next to the unique list, I had a =if(isblank.....) for the numbers, ie, find "bread" then beside "bread" show "x 6" find nothing? Then show nothing. Worked perfectly, but now having added the array I'm getting an extra row of:
" x 0 £0.00"
Its not the end of the world, but a bit annoying. Any ideas?

G

 

[RoryA]

I'd guess something like:

=arrayformula(unique(proper(FILTER(range,range<>""))))

 

[MKGIA]

I'd guess something like:

=arrayformula(unique(proper(FILTER(range,range<>""))))

Perfect, thank you so much!!