How to rank the date in Excel without duplicates

Question

Good Morning.

I have a question about ranking date in excel, please see the image below, in the rank column,

I used formula:

=RANK($A3,$A:$         


        

Answer 1

Here is a quick and dirty answer that requires a helper column. For the first row, manually enter 1. For the following rows, check if the rank has changed. If the rank is the same as previous, use the previous modified rank. Otherwise, increment the previous modified rank: =IF(B3=B2,C2,C2+1).