Generate unique IDs for your dataset for building summary reports - Excel & Google Sheets

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Learn 3 different methods for creating unique IDs in your dataset when no unique ID exists. You can apply these methods to Excel or Google Sheets. Having a unique ID in your table of data makes it easier to reference specific rows of data when you are building out your summary reports and dashboards.

* Intro - 0:00
* Method 1: Sequential list of numbers - 2:32
* Method 2: Create random numbers as ID - 5:17
* Method 3: Concatenate columns together - 10:45

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For the concantenation ID you could literaly use the countif function at the end to solve all the issues. It would ensure you get different id's every time.

THAT-PRINTER-GUY
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I have a table with hundreds of stock trades. I would like exel to auto generate a new unique ID for each trade as I add it to the table. I would like that ID to stick with the row that contains the trade even when I sort the table by various columns (such as date or name of stock etc.). I can get excel to auto generate a number using concate but that makes the numbers long and awkward. Is there a way to get excel to auto generate a Unique ID for each trade so that I can re-sort by ID and get them back in chronological order?

robh.
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If you had a date/time column, you might turn the date/time into a number and concatenate that number to the end which should generate a unique number.

bumpersmith