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I have a cell in a Google Sheet containing a single word. Let's say that word is TRILLION.

I want to obtain the set of letters in the word, in order of first appearance. For that word, the answer would be TRILON (suppressing the double L and second I).

I can get the string into array form easily enough with SPLIT(REGEXREPLACE(".", "$0 "), " "). Then I'm stuck.

I've tried UNIQUE, but this fails on unsorted arrays. I've tried SORT, but this does not appear to work on arrays in Google Sheets, contrary to the documentation's claims (the array remains unsorted)—plus I want the letters in the original order.

What I ultimately want is for each cell in a horizontal range to contain one letter from the original word, in the order of those letters' first appearances in the word.

The formula needs to continue to work even after the word is changed to a different one. (The spreadsheet will be used for a certain word puzzle and I want to be able to duplicate a template sheet for each word players try to work on.)

I have a cell in a Google Sheet containing a single word. Let's say that word is TRILLION.

I want to obtain the set of letters in the word, in order of first appearance. For that word, the answer would be TRILON (suppressing the double L and second I).

I can get the string into array form easily enough with SPLIT(REGEXREPLACE(".", "$0 "), " "). Then I'm stuck.

I've tried UNIQUE, but this fails on unsorted arrays. I've tried SORT, but this does not appear to work on arrays in Google Sheets, contrary to the documentation's claims (the array remains unsorted)—plus I want the letters in the original order.

What I ultimately want is for each cell in a horizontal range to contain one letter from the original word, in the order of those letters' first appearances in the word.

The formula needs to continue to work even after the word is changed to a different one. (The spreadsheet will be used for a certain word puzzle and I want to be able to duplicate a template sheet for each word players try to work on.)

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  • 1 @ScottCraner I tried and it works! Why not post it as an answer? – Lime Husky Commented Nov 19, 2024 at 21:43
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UNIQUE's second argument is whether it should look across columns instead of down a row. Since the SPLIT is returning a horizontal array we need to make that TRUE:

=CONCATENATE(unique(SPLIT(REGEXREPLACE(A1,".", "$0 "), " "),1))

Now it works:

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