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I appreciate any help on this... Say I have 5 options/features:

F1
F2
F3
F4
F5

Each of which can be on or off (1 | 0)

How in Excel would I display all the options? The order doesn't matter and I don't want duplicates.

The first test would be:

F1-1, F2-1, F3-1, F4-1, F5-1     I.e. All options are on.
F1-1, F2-0, F3-1, F4-1, F5-1     I.e. Option 2 is disabled. 
F1-1, F2-1, F3-0, F4-1, F5-1     I.e. Option 3 is disabled. 
Etc... to cover all combinations of the features being on or off.

Thanks in advance.

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We can use a binary counter:

In A1 enter:

=DEC2BIN(ROW()-1,5)

and copy down:

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To get a better format, in B1 enter:

="F1-" & MID(A1,1,1) & ",F2-" & MID(A1,2,1) & ",F3-" & MID(A1,3,1) & ",F4-" & MID(A1,4,1) & ",F5-" & MID(A1,5,1)

and copy down:

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We can manually calculate the (reversed) binary digit:

In A1 enter:

=MOD(QUOTIENT(ROW()-1,POWER(2,COLUMN()-1)), 2)

Copy across the number of options/features, then down.

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  • Credit to Gary's Student for first answer to suggest binary counter. I've formatted my answer similarly to his for consistency.
    – anjsimmo
    Jan 26, 2017 at 3:00
  • I think your approach is really cool! (+1) Jan 26, 2017 at 3:06

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