In this tutorial we’re looking at the COUNTIF and COUNTIFS Formulas, and we'll take a look at a couple of different applications for them.
Plus you can download a practice workbook, you'll find the file down below.
The COUNTIF/S functions work ALMOST in the same way as the SUMIF/S functions only they’re slightly simpler. So if you haven’t mastered SUMIF/S yet be sure to check out our SUMIF/S tutorial too.
COUNTIF extends the capabilities of the basic COUNT function by allowing you to tell Excel to only COUNT items that meet a certain criteria. New in Excel 2007 is the COUNTIFS function, which allows you to stipulate multiple criteria, hence the plural.
Enough explanation, let’s dive into an example as it’s easier to visualise.
COUNTIF Function
The function wizard in Excel describes COUNTIF as:
=COUNTIF(range,criteria)
Looks fairly simple and it is. Let’s translate it into English now by applying it to an example. Say we wanted to count the number of times Dave appeared in column C of the table below.
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Translated our formula would read like this:
=COUNTIF(count the number of cells in column C, that contain 'Dave')
We could even create a table under the data to count the occurrences of each builder:
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Our formula in cell C12 would be:
=COUNTIF(C2:C7,"Dave")
While the above formula is good, if we were to copy it to the rest of the summary table (cells C11 to C14) we would have to manually change the cell references and builder’s name to get the correct answers.
To avoid this manual intervention, we can use absolute references, which will speed up the process of copying the formula to the remainder of column C.
With absolute references our formula would look like this:
=COUNTIF($C$2:$C$7,$B12)
The ‘$’ signs tell Excel that we don’t want the reference after the ‘$’ sign to change when we copy the formula. For example, if we copied the formula into cell C13 it would read:
=COUNTIF($C$2:$C$7,$B13)
In the above formula we can see that the only reference that changed was $B12, which became $B13.
The best way to understand how this works is to try it for yourself.
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Note: I used a basic example to illustrate how to use COUNTIF, but you could also achieve this count by builder using the subtotal tool in the Data tab.
COUNTIFS Function
The function wizard in Excel describes COUNTIFS as:
=COUNTIFS(critera_range_1,criteria_1,criteria_range_2,criteria_2.....and so on if required)
Extending the previous COUNTIF example above, say we wanted to only summarise the data by builder for jobs in the South region. We could use the COUNTIFS function, as it allows us to set more than one condition.
Here’s how the formula would be interpreted if we wanted to count the occurrences of Brian in column C, where jobs were in the South region:
=COUNTIFS(count the number of cells in column C if, they contain ‘Brian’ and, if in column B, they are also for the South region)
Note: Excel will only include the cells in column C in the count when both conditions (Brian & South) are met.
Using absolute references, our COUNTIFS formula in Excel cell C20 would read:
=COUNTIFS($C$2:$C$7,$B20,$B$2:$B$7,$B$17)
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Try other operators
Just like the IF Statement and SUMIF formula, the COUNTIF and COUNTIFS are based on logic. This means you can employ different tests other than the text matching (Brian & South) we’ve used above.
Other operators you could use are:
- = Equal to
- < Less Than
- > Greater Than
- <= Less than or equal to
- >= Greater than or equal to
- <> Less than or greater than
For example, if you wanted to count the jobs with an average > $300k the formula would be:
=COUNTIF($E$2:$E$7,">300")
Note: again I’ve used a simple example to illustrate this, but another way to achieve this summary table for each builder by region is to use a Pivot Table.
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maxwell kosy
Fill in the output in F14:F44: amount of finished products times the value in I5.
trying to find out the formula suitable for output of a finished product
please help….
I used =countif(E14:E44,”>I5″) and =countif(E14:E44, $I$5)
would be expecting your reply.
Mynda Treacy
Sounds like a question on a test. Please post your question on our Excel forum where you can also upload a sample file so we can see the data you’re working with and we can help you further.
Ching
help!!!
I need count if column A-Columb B=2
Mynda Treacy
Hi Ching,
Mynda
Manikandan
Can I use this formula for Attendance usage? I am trying to locate a specific word (or) in time in a cell (in column A) and assign a value out time to that cell in column B. Here is my formula, but the error message says I have too many arguments entered. Please help!
Need for three contain – Present, Absent & Leave, how to use the formula
=IF(AND(A2=””,B2=””),””,”P”,”)
Mynda Treacy
The last ,” is redundant. Try:
=IF(AND(A2=””,B2=””),””,”P”)
Mynda
Asher Njihia
Where are the COUNTIF formulae effects
Mynda Treacy
Hi Ahser, I’m not sure what you mean by this, sorry.
Autumn Turner
For some reason Excel will not let me count the number of occurrences of the word “Green” it works with Blue, Red, Yellow etc.
This is what I am using:
=COUNTIF(Q2:Q100, “Green”)
Again, the exact same formula works for blue, yellow, and red.
Additionally using =INDEX($A$2:$A$5, RANDBETWEEN(1,5)) where the list is (Green, Red, Blue, Yellow) the word green shows up as #REF!
Is there something wrong with the word “Green”?
Catalin Bombea
Hi,
Check that cell for invisible chars like trailing spaces, new line chars (CHAR(10), CHAR(13) for example)
Should work after you remove them.
Philip Treacy
Hi Autumn,
I can’t be sure without seeing your data – you could open a topic on the forum and supply your workbook.
With COUNTIF, are you getting an error or is it just not counting all the occurrences of Green? If it’s the latter, are you sure all the cells actually contain the word Green? Perhaps there are leading or trailing spaces or some other characters in there?
The INDEX formula is being given a 4 cell range but RANDBETWEEN is returning a number between 1 and 5. So if it returns 5, you’ll get a #REF from INDEX.
Regards
Phil
Nicolae
Is there a way that i can use an excel formula to count how many calls are being dialed on my software phone?? Im currently running a call center and i want to keep count of how many calls my agents are making in an hour for 8 hours.
Catalin Bombea
Hi Nicolae,
You can use a formula, but only if you have that data in excel. That software should provide usage logs that can be analyzed in excel, but I cannot say more without seeing how data looks like.
You can upload a sample file to our forum.
Nadim
I do traning for 8 topics. these training topics for all staff and suppose to expire yearly and show red colour. the problem i have cells dates sep 20 or oct 15 and showing green not expired.
=COUNTIF(H7:O7,”>”&TODAY()-365)
Mynda Treacy
Hi Nadim,
I suspect the dates in those cells might be text, not proper date serial numbers that Excel recognises.
Mynda
Malcolm
Great information on Countif. I am trying to use it on an attendance sheet to count the number or absences, tardies, sick time etc for example that appear in a referenced ranged for each student. So i have a total tab then i have several sheets for each month. The formula i am using looks like this, =COUNTIF(‘Aug 2019:May 2020’!C2:AG2, “A”). The A refers to absent then i have T for tardy and so on. It works when I select one tab but when i enter a range of tab it it gives me a value error. I tried the SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIIF(INDIRECT but it is not efficient. Any suggestions please?
Catalin Bombea
Hi Malcolm,
Sounds like you have dozens of worksheets, that is not an efficient data structure, it will lead to more and more complex formulas.
It’s best to summarize them with power query in this case.
Malcolm
Thank you. I am in the process of trying that now. I will let you know how it goes.
KJ
HI, I have a question- in your image of “COUNTIF Function”,
Builder ‘Dave’ did total 13 units.
Excel C3 – “Dave” Excel D3 – “10”
Excel C4 – “Dave” Excel D4 – “3”
How can I show on the excel formula that Dave has completed “13” Units?
With COUNTIF function, I can only make Dave has completed two (2) jobs, not units…
Please kindly help!
Thank you!
Catalin Bombea
Hi KJ,
Use SUMIF to add column D based on column C values, not COUNTIF.
In E3: =SUMIF($D$1:$D$10,C1)
Copy this down as needed.
Rachel
Hello,
I am hoping you can help me. I have a spreadsheet where each project has its own tab, and then there is another tab labeled June that does some analysis off the 20 project tabs. I have a very large formula, and I’m hoping you have a better and shorter way to display this formula. I am using multiple countif formulas currently.
Here is the formula:
=COUNTIFS(‘P1′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P1’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P2′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P2’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P3′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P3’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P4′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P4’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P5′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P5’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P6′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P6’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P7′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P7’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P8′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P8’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P9′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P9’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P10′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P10’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P11′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P11’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P12′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P12’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P13′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P13’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P14′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P14’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P15′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P15’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P16′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P16’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P17′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P17’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P18′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P18’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P19′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P19’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)+COUNTIFS(‘P20′!$B$14:$B$38,June!A11,’P20’!$L$14:$L$38,June!$B$1)
For project one it’s saying to look at the project 1 tab and count how may times the following two conditions are met: impacted group says clients, and the date is 6/3/2019. This formula does work as is. Then do that for every tab and add them together. However, scalability is an issue, as there could be upwards of 50 projects and the formula is only set up for 20. I know Excel has a limit on the number of elements/characters you can use in one formula.
Can you help me figure out a way to shorten this formula down to a more manageable size? I’ve tried naming ranges which I can’t seem to get to work. Any help would be appreciated.
Mynda Treacy
Hi Rachel,
When I see formulas like this it tells me that the data is in the wrong format and now you’re paying for it with these overly complicated formulas. Please read this tutorial on writing formuals effectively.
The shorter way is to use Power Query to consoliate the data spread across separate sheets into a single table in a tabular layout. Then you can use a single COUNTIFS formula without any nesting required.
I hope that points you in the right direction. If you get stuck, we have an Excel Forum where you can post questions and a sample Excel file so we can help you with a specific answer.
Mynda
Rachel
Mynda,
You didn’t know it, but you were answering a question I’ve had for years. You have no idea the amount of time and frustration you’ve saved me. I knew it was inefficient and that I really needed the data combined into one sheet, I just did not know how. Thank you so much, Power Query is exactly what I’ve needed. Really appreciate you taking the time to answer.
Thank you,
Rachel
Mynda Treacy
Glad I could help, Rachel 🙂
eman
I was not able to download the file, it says corrupt file.
Catalin Bombea
Hi Eman,
Can you try right clicking the link and save link as?
Samantha Kingsley
I am trying to count how many time a certain txt shows up in a table;
=COUNTIF(F2:F607,”Ready to Submit”) This formula works and gives me an amount however, this one =COUNTIF(F2:F600,”Payment Control”) gives me a 0 result even though it should be giving me a value besides 0. Can’t figure out why it’s not working as it works with the other column no issue.
Thank you
Catalin Bombea
Hi Samantha,
Check if column F has indeed “Payment Control”, without any extra spaces or invisible chars before or after the text.
Stephen
I am using the following formula:
=COUNTIFS(Data!O$2:O$50249,2019,Data!AC$2:AC$50249,”=”&B76,Data!P$2:P$50249,”Freshman”)+COUNTIFS(Data!O$2:O$50249,2019,Data!AC$2:AC$50249,”=”&B76,Data!P$2:P$50249,”transfer”)+COUNTIFS(Data!O$2:O$50249,2019,Data!AC$2:AC$50249,”=”&B76,Data!P$2:P$50249,”readmit”)+COUNTIFS(Data!O$2:O$50249,2019,Data!AC$2:AC$50249,”=”&B76,Data!P$2:P$50249,”Advanced Freshman”)
To pull attendance information off of a spreadsheet at a college. My formula works perfectly for 2019 and 2018 but when I transfer it to the 3rd column in 2017 it does not provide me with any information (even after I update the dates). Do you know why it would bottom out after the 3rd column? Please let me know as I am definitely curious!
Mynda Treacy
Hi Stephen,
Not without seeing the file. That said, it looks like you could replace this complex formula with a PivotTable.
If you want to post your question and Excel file on our forum we can help troubleshoot.
Mynda
Farooq
I want to use “Countifs” for to count no. of receive quantities as per specific size. Can anyone help me
Mynda Treacy
Hi Farooq,
Sure, we’d be happy to help. Please post your question and sample Excel file on our forum where we can provide you with a specific answer.
Thanks,
Mynda
Carol
Thank you so much Catalin, but that formula doesn’t provide the resolve I was looking for. I just want to drag the formula acrosss rows with only the number “1” changing to “2”, “3”, etc. Any further help is appreciated.
Catalin Bombea
Hi Carol,
In this formula:
=COUNTIF($C3:$C363,Row(A1))
Row(A1) will return 1 for the first cell with this formula. When you copy down this cell, the row number will increase, next cells will have: Row(A2)-this returns 2, Row(A3)-this returns 3 and so on.
I guess you did not tested the formula? If you did, should work.
Carol
=COUNTIF($C3:$C363,”1″) how do I copy this formula across rows to read =COUNTIF($C3:$C363,”2″), =COUNTIF($C3:$C363,”3″), etc? It will only copy =COUNTIF($C3:$C363,”1″) across the rows. Thank you.
Catalin Bombea
Hi Carol, try this:
=COUNTIF($C3:$C363,Row(A1))
Habib Shaukat
what should I do to count the same character for example “Y” in the same row of different columns in excel?
Name Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 Total Y Total N
John Y Y N Y 3 1 \\COUNTS FOR JOHN
Rose N N Y Y 2 2 \\COUNTS FOR ROSE
Mynda Treacy
Hi Habib,
If you use relative references you can enter the first formula and then copy it down. e.g. let’s say your data starts in cell A1, the formula for the first row is:
Mynda
Stephen Howe
I hope you can help, I’m looking to count the amount of dates that are Feb in a column, but I cant find the formula (the dates are in a separate sheet).
Philip Treacy
Hi Stephen,
You can use SUMPRODUCT, try this
=SUMPRODUCT((MONTH(Sheet2!A1:A10)=2)*1)
You’ll need to adjust the range reference of course.
Regards
Phil
Afia Tehmeen
I have data for Personal Protective Equipment on one sheet fro all departments(i.e a format copied again and again with different numbers as per requirements of PPEs).I want to know how much shoes we need ,how much masks we need in total.Which command can fulfill this task?
Mynda Treacy
Hi Afia,
It sounds like your data might not be in a tabular format, which may make it difficult to summarize as you describe. Please post your question and sample Excel file on our Excel forum so we can see the layout and help you further.
Mynda
George Sie Williams
I am using the Countifs formula but I want to return a blank value instead of zero if a certain cell was empty. Could anyone help.
Mynda Treacy
Hi George,
You can use a custom number format to hide zeros returned by COUNTIF.
Mynda
Mark Etchemendy
I have a spreadsheet with a row of dates (M6:M24) that I am trying to count how many dates in the row are before or equal to todays date ($P$3). (I know I don’t need to reference a cell for todays date but want to).
My formula is: =COUNTIF(M6:M24,”<"&$P$3)
My formula does what I want except when I apply a filter to a column. The total still shows everything not just what is visible. I think I need to use a SUMPRODUCT formula but don't know how to write it.
Please help!
Mynda Treacy
Hi Mark,
SUMPRODUCT won’t ignore hidden or filtered rows either. In fact nothing will COUNTIF and ignore filtered rows. You’d be best to use a PivotTable. If you’re not sure how to create a PivotTable to count as you describe, please post your question on our Excel forum and upload a sample Excel file and we can show you.
Mynda
Lauren Pettit
How do you find the unique value once you’ve located multiple rows for the same entry on a spreadsheet?
=IF(COUNTIFS($A:$A,A2,$B:$B,$B2)>1, “Multiple Lines”, “”)
There are multiple lines because each line can contain one or more indications (this report is for antibiotic use and it’s associated indication). So once the “multiple lines” are identified, how do you then count them as “1” to keep your numbers correct?
If I have 10 lines for a dose of antibiotics and 4 of those lines are for one unique administration, then the total number of unique doses administered should be 7 vs 10. What other argument or function is needed to acheive this calculation without needing to concatenate my rows into 1 row. I have done this before and it is very time consuming with a couple of helper columns and formulas.
Thanks for your help!!
Lauren
Hello,
I am working with hospital data. I need to count how often a dose of a specific antibiotic was given and include the indications associated with that order. Some of the orders have multiple indications, so for every administration, there can be multiple lines of data (i.e. 3 lines of data for each specific indication, for each single administration).
I am able to use the countifs to identify the duplicate rows using multiple columns, but how do I then count each administration as 1 when there may be 3 lines.
Identify multiple lines =IF(COUNTIFS($A:$A,$A521,$B:$B,$B521)>1, “Multiple Lines”, “”)
I’ve included a small sample size of my data. There is a unique order ID associated with an administration date and time, then the assigned diagnoses.
Order ID Admin Date and Time Multiple Rows Indications of Use Default Dispense Code
93466529 6/19/2018 7:32 PERIOPERATIVE PHARMACOPROPHYLAXIS IVPB Premix
93466694 6/4/2018 20:24 PERIOPERATIVE PHARMACOPROPHYLAXIS IVPB Premix
93466694 6/5/2018 4:19 PERIOPERATIVE PHARMACOPROPHYLAXIS IVPB Premix
93468230 6/4/2018 21:24 PERIOPERATIVE PHARMACOPROPHYLAXIS IVPB Premix
93468230 6/5/2018 5:48 PERIOPERATIVE PHARMACOPROPHYLAXIS IVPB Premix
93471960 6/4/2018 15:41 PERIOPERATIVE PHARMACOPROPHYLAXIS Syringe Premix
93476190 6/4/2018 22:49 PERIOPERATIVE PHARMACOPROPHYLAXIS IVPB Premix
93476190 6/5/2018 6:00 PERIOPERATIVE PHARMACOPROPHYLAXIS IVPB Premix
93476196 6/4/2018 14:45 Unit Dose
93482117 6/5/2018 8:55 Unit Dose
93482525 6/11/2018 11:31 PERIOPERATIVE PHARMACOPROPHYLAXIS Syringe Premix
93489593 6/6/2018 15:03 Multiple Lines BACTEREMIA Syringe Premix
93489593 6/6/2018 15:03 Multiple Lines UTI – UPPER Syringe Premix
93489593 6/6/2018 21:55 Multiple Lines BACTEREMIA Syringe Premix
93489593 6/6/2018 21:55 Multiple Lines UTI – UPPER Syringe Premix
93489593 6/7/2018 6:17 Multiple Lines BACTEREMIA Syringe Premix
93489593 6/7/2018 6:17 Multiple Lines UTI – UPPER Syringe Premix
93489593 6/7/2018 14:07 Multiple Lines BACTEREMIA Syringe Premix
93489593 6/7/2018 14:07 Multiple Lines UTI – UPPER Syringe Premix
Mynda Treacy
Hi Lauren,
Thanks for your question. Please post it and a sample Excel file on our Excel Forum where we can give you a specific solution. It’s a bit tricky here in the comments as it’s difficult to tell where the columns are in your data above.
Thanks,
Mynda
Joe
=COUNTIFS(‘Closed Tickets’!$A:$A,”Fee Schedule”,’Closed Tickets’!$Q:$Q,”x”,’Closed Tickets’!$U:$U,”>=4/1/2018″,’Closed Tickets’!$U:$U,”=B4″ (and B4 contains a date), the result returned is only a 0…no error statement. Thank you.
Mynda Treacy
Hi Joe,
The date criteria is not specified correctly, it should be:
Note: the double quotes and ampersand between the >= and date
Also, the last criteria should simply be B4 like so:
Mynda
Kritymoy Boroowa
I want to use CountIFS for a value of TIME
count of number of cells where time value is less than 00:31:25 mins
Catalin Bombea
Hi Kritymoy,
Try this formula:
=COUNTIFS(A1:A10,”<"&TIME(0,31,25))
susanna
can someone help with this formula
=COUNTIFS(L4:L44,x,L4:L44,n)
I’m trying to get a total number of 2 letters from a column
Mynda Treacy
Hi Susanna,
You need to wrap text in double quotes like so:
Mynda
Mansoor
hi,
i want to use COUNTIF formula in Excel 2007 insted of SUMIF like bellow mention
=SUMIF(C7:C174, “Faisal”, F7:F174)
is it posibble?
Mynda Treacy
Hi Mansoor,
Try this:
Mynda
saneesh
i want to split an excel cell by formula for example
” sa-neee-sss-h ” if this is in column A i want to split “sa” “neee” “sss” “h” in C,D,E & F columns. i want a gap in B column for entering a mark in that column.Is it possible??
Philip Treacy
Hi Saneesh,
Yes this is possible with the word ‘saneeesssh’ but that is very specific. If you want to split up other words you’ll need a generic formula.
Can you post on the forum and provide more examples and a sample file.
Regards
Phil
Geoffrey
I need a program that can generate for me a criteria based on three issues in rows a,b and c for 20 categories as columns such that cell a will have 3 scenarios in each column and row produced to the 20 columns.how many cells contents will i have in total 20x3x3? or 20x3x3x3?
which branch of maths is this?
Catalin Bombea
Hi Geoffrey,
I guess it’s just applied logic. Not sure what you have as scenarios in A, B, C columns, is it a number, text?
Try:
=20&If(Len(A1)>0,”x3″,””)&If(Len(B1)>0,”x3″,””)&If(Len(C1)>0,”x3″,””)
mil
=COUNTIFS(A3:J3;”>=E1″;A3:J3;”<C1")
Catalin Bombea
Thanks for the formula. What should we do with it?
Alison
Hi,
I’m trying to create a Countif formula that would count the amount of words that begin with a letter in column B, of those rows, then count if the value in column I is equal to a number. I’ve tried: =COUNTIF(B2:B3517,”A*, I2:I3517, 35) . But it won’t recognize the formula and is giving me an error. Please help!
Mynda Treacy
Hi Alison,
Your formula has too many arguments. COUNTIF only has 2 arguments: range and criteria. e.g. it should be something like this:
=COUNTIF(B2:B3517,”A*”)
If you’re still stuck, please post your question and sample Excel workbook on our Excel forum here:
Mynda
Shubh
Hi,
In my data I have grades {a,b,c,d} in column F and classes 1, 2, 3 in column A. I need to count number of observations with grades a or b and classes 1 or 2 or 3. I have tries this
SUM(COUNTIFS(F:F,{“a”,”b”}, A:A,{1,2,3}))
this showes wrong results
then i have tried this
SUM(COUNTIFS(F:F,”a”, A:A,{1,2,3}))+SUM(COUNTIFS(F:F,”b”, A:A,{1,2,3}))
this gives the correct answer.
What is wrong with the first formula.
Regards
Shubh
Catalin Bombea
Hi Shubh,
First formula answers this question:
In How many rows we have (“a” in column F AND “1” in column A) OR (“b” in column F AND “2” in column A)? (the 3 in second criteria array is useless, as there is no pair value in first array). So “a” is only associated with 1, “b” is associated only with 2, they have to be in the same row.
Second version says:
In How many rows we have (“a” OR “b” in column F) AND (1 OR 2 OR 3 in column A)?
The second formula can be written as:
=SUM(COUNTIFS(B:B,{“a”,”a”,”a”,”b”,”b”,”b”}, A:A,{1,2,3,1,2,3}))
Each element from first constants array has only one correspondent value in second constants array, both arrays must have the same size.
You can set the associations in any combination you want, for example you can find in how many rows there are “a” & 1 OR “c” & 3:
=SUM(COUNTIFS(B:B,{“a”,”c”}, A:A,{1,3}))
Shubh
Thanks a lot Catalin.
Phil
Hi Mynda,
Is it possible to count cells in a range that contain a number, only if a non adjacent cell also contains data? e.g. In the range A1:A10 cells A3,A7 & A10 contain a number and in the range B1:B10 cells B1, B3, B6 & B9 contain data. I want to count the number of cells containing data in A1:A10 but only if there is data in a cell one across and one up i.e. B2, B6 & B9. The answer should be 2. Thanks
Catalin Bombea
Hi Phil,
Your data should start from row 2, not row 1, in order to use this formula:
=SUMPRODUCT((A2:A11<>“”)*(B1:B10<>“”))
The ranges should be equal, note that the second has a 1 cell offset.
Catalin
Tom
Hi, I have a question regarding COUNTIFS. The simple boiled down version of what I am trying to do is…I am trying to use COUNTIFS to count the number of entries that the departure date is either blank or in the future (greater than today) and that is marked with an “X” in another column. There are several other renditions in the formula but if I can get this, I can get the rest. So far, I have…
=SUM(COUNTIFS($C$2:$C$50,{“”;”>”&TODAY()},$E$2:$E$50,”X”))
Excel won’t let me return out of the formula and highlights the quotation mark following the greater than symbol. Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong? Thanks for the help.
Tom
Mynda Treacy
Hi Tom,
You can’t have OR criteria in COUNTIFS. Every criteria is considered AND. Instead you can use SUMPRODUCT to hand ORs.
You can learn more about SUMPRODUCT here.
Mynda
Marcy
I have a question-
How can I get this =COUNTIF(E3:G3,”X”) to produce a result of 100% instead of 3% in cell H3? I am trying to get the percentage in cell H3 to change as each of the other cells is populated with “X” Am I using the wrong formula?
Thanks
Marcy
Just to add more info- it is now this =COUNTIF(E3:G3,”X”)+100-3 but I want the percent to start at 25% then go up from there as each cell has an X put into it. Right now it starts at 97% since there are only 3 cells its looking at
Mynda Treacy
Hi Marcy,
Please post your question and a sample Excel file on our Excel Forum where we can see your question in context and give you a suitable solution.
Mynda
Yourik Kazarian
Hey There
I am trying to create a cell in G2 in which whatever value i put in C2,c3,c4, Etc… only counts if the date i put in B2,B3,B4, Etc… has passed.
Currently this is what i have
=(COUNTIFS(B2:B9,”<="&TODAY(),C2:C9,"”))
However, this seems to only give me a value of 1 whenever i put any value in the C column.
Is there a variation to this formula that will count the exact value i put into C?
Mynda Treacy
Hi Yourik,
COUNTIF or COUNTIFS will only count the dates in column B has passed today’s date. It won’t count values in column C. Are you sure you don’t want to SUM values in column C when the date in column B has passed?
That would be SUMIF like this:
Mynda
Brian
Hi Mynda,
I’m trying to use a similar formula for a similar situation. What I’m trying to do is count the number of cells that have a date that falls within ” today() and today()+31 “. I’m trying to use
=COUNTIFS(N13:N22,”>=”&TODAY(),N13:N66,”<="&TODAY()+31) which gives me the result of " #value ". This is based off of ' =COUNTIFS(N13:N22,"<="&TODAY()) " which I used to get one result and that's working just fine. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Catalin Bombea
Hi Brian,
The ranges should have equal ranges, in the first criteria range you have N13:N22, in the second you have N13:N66. If they have the same size, the formula should work.
Catalin
Brian
Wow I can’t believe I messed that up. Changing the 22 to a 66 though is now giving me a quantity of ” 0 “. I have a test worksheet set up so it should populate a 4. below is the adjusted formula along with cells N13 through N22.
=COUNTIFS(N13:N22,”=&TODAY()”,N13:N22,”=&TODAY()+31″)
15-Aug-17
30-Sep-17
30-Sep-17
27-Mar-18
10-Oct-17
2-Nov-17
12-Oct-17
3-Nov-17
3-Nov-17
1-Nov-17
(I’m relatively new to all of this, it took me about 2 weeks of trial and error and google to build up to here. changing cell color based on date, adjust dates with edate, half this formula to get dates that occur after today. 600+ cells 8 worksheets, and each cell a constantly changing date.)
Catalin Bombea
Hi Brian,
It’s important where you put the double quotes.
=COUNTIFS(N13:N22,”=&TODAY()”,N13:N22,”=&TODAY()+31″)
Should be:
=COUNTIFS(N13:N22,”=”&TODAY(),N13:N22,”=”&TODAY()+31)
If the today formula is wrapped between double quotes, it will no longer be a formula, i’s just the formula name instead of the value used in criteria.
Jerry
Hi, I will need help.
Rows/ Column
A B C
1) Team Situation Explanation
2) Alpha Critical Fever
3) Bravo Critical Breathing Difficulties
4) Charlie Ok NIL
5) Charlie Ok NIL
6) Alpha Critical Fever
7) Charlie Severe Diarrhea
8) Bravo Severe Throat pain
9) Charlie Severe Diarrhea
10) Alpha Severe Ankle injury
11) Bravo Severe Cough
12) Charlie Severe Cough
13) Alpha Severe Ankle Injury
14) Bravo Severe Cough
15) Bravo Severe Diarrhea
16) Charlie Severe Diarrhea
17) Charlie Severe Diarrhea
18) Bravo Severe Throat pain
19) Charlie Severe Throat pain
I need to calculate the following below:
Where X,Y & Z is the number generate from the above data and if the data is repeated, it should count as 1.
Eg. Charlie Severe Case: Total explanation output should be 3 (throat pain, diarrhea, cough) and should not be 6 (total severe case).
Alpha Critical Severe Ok
Total Explanation X Y Z
Bravo Critical Severe Ok
Total Explanation X Y Z
Charlie Critical Severe Ok
Total Explanation X Y Z
Do you know to make that formula?
Catalin Bombea
Hi Jerry,
See this file from our OneDrive.
If this is not what you wanted, please open a new topic on our forum, you will be able to upload there a sample file.
Catalin
Palani K
Hi
I have 3 columns
Col A= Jan, Feb, Mar, etc..
Col B= Name
Col C= Good, Excellent, Satisfactory.etc.
I need to count No.of “Excellent” in Jan, Feb & Mar separately using Countif & if condition.
Please help me how to use countif formula
Catalin Bombea
Hi Palani,
Try:
Jennifer
How can I get a countifS to be blank if the value is 0
Mynda Treacy
Hi Jennifer,
You can add that criteria to your formula e.g.:
Mynda
a lakshmi
how to find missing numbers in 1 to 20000 please tell me excel formulas
Mynda Treacy
Try this: https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/find-missing-numbers-really-fast
Or this: https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/finding-missing-numbers-in-a-range-using-vba
vlad
what do i do if i want to count Daves sales value and not the number of time he appeared in the sheet
Mynda Treacy
Hi Vlad,
I think you mean ‘sum’ or add up Dave’s sales value. In which case you can use a SUMIF formula for that.
Mynda
Catalin Bombea
Hi Vlad,
What do you mean? A count is a count, no matter the column. Counting how many sales values we have for Daves will give the same number as counting how many times Daves is in that list. Maybe you want to add Daves’s values? Try SUMIF instead of COUNTIF. There is also a SUMIFS version.
Catalin
sheilagh romero
What if I want to count everything in ONE column IF it = ‘pass’ OR IF it = FAIL ?
Example:Column J6:J100 can contain Pass, Fail or can be blank.
I want to count all the Pass and all the Fail
I tried:
COUNTIFS(J6:J100,”PASS”, “FAIL”)
But it comes up with a count = 0.
I have 4 = pass and 1 = fail so the count should be 5.
What did I do wrong?
thanks!
Catalin Bombea
Hi,
COUNTIFS is used to apply different criteria to multiple columns, each criteria must be met in the same row for that row to be counted. COUUNTIFS works with an AND logic, it will not count a row if the criteria is “PASS” OR “FAIL” it will always consider “PASS” AND “FAIL”, and both those values cannot exist in the same time in the same cell.
You should use 2 COUNTIF:
=COUNTIF(J6:J100,”PASS”)+COUNTIF(J6:J100, “FAIL”)
Catalin
Barbara Gonzalez
I need help in creating a formula to count only full shifts my hospitalist are working, and I don’t want the count to include Coverage shifts (phone or sick) how can I get Excel to total up only shifts (7p-7a) and not include BU (sick coverage) or CC (phone coverage) coverage in the totals?
Catalin Bombea
Hi Barbara,
You have to upload a sample file on our forum. It will be very helpful if you prepare a sample data and some manual results, so we can understand exactly you situation.
Catalin
Raj Kumar Sharma
excel formulas if column d is zero full amount of c, if d is 1, 50% of c, if d is 2, 1/3 of c and if d is 3 or more 0% of c
Catalin Bombea
Hi Raj,
Try this one:
=C1*IFERROR(INDEX({1,0.5,0.333},MATCH(D1,{0,1,2},0)),0)
Omer
Hi,
I am a basic excel user, I am handling an excel work book in 2016 version, I’ve got a query as follows:
I have 9 worksheets in an excel book and a specific column in each sheet which displays a series of reference numbers as:
GAD5-CDC-T2-349-230315-DWG-PP-STR-0114-0
GAD5-MGM-T2-349-230315-DWG-PP-STR-0114-0
GAD5-CDC-T2-349-230315-DWG-SD-STR-0114-0
GAD5-MGM-T2-363-250315-DWG-PP-STR-0119-0
GAD5-CDC-T2-363-250315-DWG-DD-STR-0119-0
GAD5-CDC-T2-363-250315-DWG-BD-STR-0119-0
GAD5-CDC-T2-259-51-050515-DWG-FD-S-0233-00
GAD5-CDC-T2-259-51-050515-DWG-TD-S-0233-00
GAD5-MGM-T2-259-51-050515-DWG-LD-S-0233-00
GAD5-MGM-T3-119-25-DDS-ST-1568-02
GAD5-MGM-T3-119-25-DDS-RT-1568-02
GAD5-MGM-T3-119-25-DDS-OT-1568-02
and so on, Please note: these numbers are not following any sequence. I want to count the number of times the second last series of number is appearing. In this Instance
0114 is 3 times
0119 is 3 times
0233 is 3 times &
1568 is 3 times
I want to count this by a formula and get the result in any other cell as a counter. I’ll appreciate if you could help me in this please.
Mynda Treacy
Hi Omer,
You can use Text to columns to extract the second last series into another column. From there you can use PivotTables to count the instance of each number.
If you get stuck please post your question with a sample file on our Excel Forum so we can show you what we mean.
syediomer
Hi Mynda,
Thank you for your kind response. I have posted my question to Excel Forum, with the sample file, your further help will be much appreciated. Many Thanks.
https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum/excel/text-to-columns-pivot-tables#p1317
Syed
Hi I am a basic excel user, I am using excel 2016, my question is:
I am using the sumproduct formula to get my results the formula is
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET(AR9:AR4148,ROW(AR9:AR4148)-MIN(ROW(AR9:AR4148)),,1))*(AR9:AR4148=”A”))
however in another column i want to use the same formula and I wan this to calculate the same way but the number not text, but it is not giving any result. For example I want the aforementioned formula to work like this
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET(AR9:AR4148,ROW(AR9:AR4148)-MIN(ROW(AR9:R4148)),,1))*(AR9:AR4148=”1″))
But it is not giving the correct answer, can you please help me.
Catalin Bombea
Hi Syed,
(AR9:AR4148=”1″) will assume that the column is formatted as text, it’s searching for text strings, not numbers (when a number is between double quotes, it’s a text, not a number). If you have numbers, and the column is formatted as numbers, simply use:
(AR9:AR4148=1) (without double quotes). Make sure you have the same data type in the formula and in that column. Or you can force that column to convert it to text, by adding a zero length string to that column:
(“”&AR9:AR4148=”1″) This way, both sides of the equation will have the same data type.
Syed
Hi I am a basic excel user, I am using excel 2016, my question is:
I am using the formula =IF(X4030=””,TODAY()-W4030) to get the result but if the cell W4030 is blank the result is some strange value, I want excel to display nothing if the cell W4030 is blank, how can i fix this. Please help. Many Thanks
Mynda Treacy
Hi Syed,
Just change your formula slightly:
Mynda
Syed
Hi I am new Excel user, I have an excel sheet in which 2 columns are dates 1 is date item is received and the other one is the date when item was sent back with comments, I want to have a third column which tells how many days the item was sitting with us, I am doing it in a simple way =W225-U225 by this i get my desired result, my concern is, a cell in W column will be empty till item is not responded and if it is empty the cell with the formula is showing some strange numbers. how can I fix this.
Mynda Treacy
Hi Syed,
You can use IF to check whether the second date field is empty. If it’s empty you can tell Excel to return blank, otherwise do the calculation. Here is an example formula:
A1 contains your received date and B1 contains the date the item was sent back.
Mynda
Syed
many thanks Mynda!
Darshan Patil
Very good information to learn exel
Joe
Outstanding explanation, the “COUNTIFS” functions without any problems. However I need the formula to go one step further. I’m searching in two different columns (ranges) and have specified two different criterion, to this point no problems. The last and final step is to divide by a specified cell, if the cell has a “0” then I get the dreaded “#DIV/0”. Is there any way to get rid of the error “#DIV/0”?
=COUNTIFS($M$8:$M$27,$B$74)/$B$8
=COUNTIFS($M$8:$M$27,$B$74,$N$8:$N$27,$B$75)/$BP$7
In the above examples, both produce “#DIV/0” if the last cell (B8 and BP7) have a “0” in the cell. Understand I can’t divide by 0, is it possible to get rid of “#DIV/0?
Catalin Bombea
Hi Joe,
You can Simply wrap your functions with the IFERROR function, then choose what you want to return in that case:
=IFERROR(COUNTIFS($M$8:$M$27,$B$74,$N$8:$N$27,$B$75)/$BP$7,”Error Message here, or a number”)
Cheers,
Catalin
Ruth
Hi,
Can you help with a formula please. I need to use conditional formatting to highlight cells when a number is repeated more than 3 times, where in another cell is the word No.
I have managed the first part of the formula as =COUNTIF(A:A, A1,) > 3 but I can’t combine it with the 2nd condition. Below is an example of the data I’m using
Staff Number Deselected
95486245 Yes
36874592 No
48596314 No
95486245 No
36874592 Yes
48596314 No
95486245 No
95486245 No
36874592 Yes
36874592 Yes
So only the staff number 95486245 meets the criteria of appearing more than 3 times with ‘No’ in the deselected column.
Thanks
Ruth
Catalin Bombea
Hi Ruth,
You can use COUNTIFS, you can set lots of conditions this way:
=COUNTIFS($A$2:$A$11,A2,$B$2:$B$11,”No”)
Catalin
John Collins
GREAT EXPLANATIONS BUT THESE DON’T DO WHAT I WANT. I HAVE A 15X2 NUMERICAL TABLE IN WHICH FOR EACH VERTICALLY ADJACENT PAIR OF CELLS, I NEED TO COMPARE THE VALUE OF THE LOWER CELL WITH THAT OF THE UPPER CELL. IF LESS THAN THEN COLOUR LOWER CELL GREEN, IF EQUAL TO THEN YELLOW, IF MORE THAN THEN GREEN. (THE COLOURS COULD BE FONT COLOURS OR FILL COLOURS). ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE ME WOULD BE VERY GRATEFULLY RECEIVED.
Catalin Bombea
Hi John,a1 for the third color.
You have to take a look at this article: excel-conditional-formatting-with-formulas, you have to setup 3 conditional formatting rules, (one for each color), with very simple formulas: =a2=a1 for one color, =a2
Cheers,
Catalin
Alyssa Pease
I’m currently using the following DATEDIF formula to run a day counter:
=DATEDIF(D2,TODAY(), “d”)
It works fine but I’d like to combine it with a COUNTEDIF formula so that the total will stop adding once another field is closed out, i.e. I have final date in another cell, and once that date is filled out I want the counter to stop. Does that make sense?
Catalin Bombea
Hi Alyssa,
Hard to tell without seeing your data structure and a sample of a desired result.
Can you please upload a sample file to our Help Desk? (create a new ticket) It will be easier to provide a personalized answer.
Cheers,
Catalin
John R
Very helpful in understanding the countif and countifs functions. Thank you. However I’m trying to use the countif function and want to increment the criteria by one for each cell that I paste the formula in. Example: A1 has 2 in it, A2 has 2 in it, A3 has 1 in it. B1 has this foumula =COUNTIF(A$1:A$3, 1) in it. B2 has this formula =COUNTIF(A$1:A$3, 2) in it. Etc.
Can you help me with this?
Catalin Bombea
Hi John,
The easiest way is to use the ROW function, ROW(A1) will return the row number of the reference, use relative reference for the row number and it will increease when you copy down the formula:
=COUNTIF(A$1:A$3, ROW($A1))
If you want to copy the formula to the right, then use COLUMN function instead of ROW (column reference should be relative now):
=COUNTIF(A$1:A$3, COLUMN(A$1))
Catalin
Suresh N
I am using three criterias to be matched and then out of them need a counts between date range. I have below formula which gives one count considering matched items for three criteria and another for counts between range. But I am looking for ciombined results from this.
=COUNT(IF(Sheet1!$H$2:$H$164=Sheet2′!S$2,IF(Sheet1!$G$2:$G$162=’Sheet2′!$Q3,IF(Sheet1!$B$2:$B$164=’Sheet2′!$P$2,sheet1′!$A$2:$A$173))))
=countifs(Sheet1!$K$2:$K$162,”>=01/01/2016″,Sheet1!$K$2:$K$162,”<=01/31/2016")
From the first formula we get few counts after that I want to filter them with between range.
how do I can combine this formula
Hope I will get results for it
Catalin Bombea
Hi Suresh,
You can combine multiple criterias for a count using SUMPRODUCT:
=SUMPRODUCT((Sheet1!$H$2:$H$164=Sheet2!S$2)*(Sheet1!$G$2:$G$162=Sheet2!$Q3)*(Sheet1!$B$2:$B$164=Sheet2!$P$2)*(Sheet1!$K$2:$K$162>=”01/01/2016″)*(Sheet1!$K$2:$K$162<="01/31/2016")) Catalin
Archie
Hi!
How about if I will count the Units of the Builder in the same date or month?
Thank you,
Archie
Catalin Bombea
Hi Archie,
You can try this:
=COUNTIFS(A2:A7,”>=01/03/2008″,A2:A7,”<01/04/2008",C2:C7,"Dave")
This will count only entries for Dave, in March.
Catalin
Dayan Montano
Hi,
How can I modify the Countifs function to count the number of populated cells regardless of the value in criteria range1? I have multiple Customers and I just want to count them if criteria range2 contains a “D1″ code.
=Countifs($C$2:$C$7,???,$B$2:$B$7,”D1”)
Thanks
Catalin Bombea
Hi Dayan,
If you want a single criteria, use COUNTIF instead of COUNTIFS:
=Countif($B$2:$B$7,”D1″)
Catalin
Dayan Montano
Thank you Catalin! I was probably not clear.
If there is a customer name present in range1, I need to count it regardless of who the customer is, but only if range2 has the code D1. I found the following code for non-blank cells [“”&””].
=COUNTIFS(Summary!U:U,””&””,Summary!Q:Q,”D1″)
However my range1 is populated via a VLOOKUP and I think it’s counting even if the cell is blank. I am using the IFERROR(VLOOKUP(lookup_value,table_array,col_index_num,[range_lookup]),””) function to populate it. Any tips on how to fix it?
Regards,
Catalin Bombea
You Should try this:
=SUMPRODUCT((Summary!U:U<>“”)*(Summary!Q:Q=”D1″))
It’s more reliable than COUNTIF.
Cheers,
Catalin
Archie
Hi!
In your formula it shown only how many names for Brian’s and name of Brian in the South. Please I want to know the formula to calculate the Units of Mr. Brian which I manually count is 13.
Thanks
Catalin Bombea
Hi Archie,
Try: =SUMIF(C2:C7,C3,D2:D7) where C2:C7 is the criteria range, C3 has the criteria, and D2:D7 is the range to sum. Keep in mind that the criteria range and the range to sum must have the same number of rows.
Cheers,
Catalin
Shankar
this formula pulling up a wrong data.. Do you have any work around to resolve this.
Mynda Treacy
Hi Shankar,
Not without seeing your data and formula. If you want to raise a Help Desk ticket and upload your workbook we can take a look.
Mynda
Joshua
This has really helped me. And i think im getting the hang of it but a little stuck.
Using your “keeping it simple” outline above can you help me with this?
=COUNTIFS(count the VALUE of cells in column D if, in Column C they contain ‘Larry’ and, if in column A, they are also for the month of MAY)
Using your image above, lets pretend for a moment Larry sold 10 units on May 5th and 8 units on May 22, the Answer in this statement would be 18
Thoughts?
I tried this
=COUNTIFS(Sheet1!K:K,”6/30/2015″,Sheet1!B:B,”Larry”)+COUNTIFS(Sheet1!E:E,”=>1″)
But that just counts all 6/30/2015 and all larrys.
Mynda Treacy
Hi Joshua,
If you want to add up the units then you need a SUMIFS formula like this:
SUMIFS is explained here and SUMIFS referencing dates is explained here.
I hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Mynda
Kate Alderley
I’ve used the steps above to try and set up a simple overview sheet but I get an error:
A value used in the formula is of the wrong data type
The formula is:
=COUNTIFS(Sept!D3:D500,”1st”, Sept!I3:L500,”Offer Accepted”)
The data in the cells I’m looking at are all formatted as ‘general’
Catalin Bombea
Hi Kate,
The COUNTIFS function expects that each additional range must have the same number of rows and columns as the criteria_range1 argument (The ranges do not have to be adjacent to each other). The problem is that in your formula, criteria_range1 has 1 column D3:D500, but the second criteria_range2 has 4 columns: I3:L500. You have to add new criterias for each column: =COUNTIFS(Sept!D3:D500,”1st”, Sept!I3:I500,”Offer Accepted”, Sept!J3:J500,”Offer Accepted”, Sept!K3:K500,”Offer Accepted”, Sept!L3:L500,”Offer Accepted”)
Note that only if each cell in I:L columns contains the criteria: ”Offer Accepted” will be counted. For example, if D3 contains “1st”, the row will be counted only if I3, J3, K3 and L3 contains ”Offer Accepted”.
If you want a count if D3 contains “1st” and at least one of the I3, J3, K3, L3 cells has the second criteria, you need another approach, the countifs formula will not work.
Cheers,
Catalin
Cheers,
Catalin
Beric Boxall
I am trying to add exceptions to my formula =COUNTIF(G9:G45,”Yes”)/COUNTIF(G9:G45,””) but as the first exception is to ignore blank cells the second needs to be COUNTIF(G9:G45,”N/a”)
This formula does not allow me to include the second exception.
Beric Boxall
That should be =COUNTIF(G9:G45,”Yes”)/COUNTIF(G9:G45,””) and the next statement to add is COUNTIF(G9:G45,”N/a”)
Mynda Treacy
Hi Beric,
I’m not following you, sorry. Is COUNTIFS what you’re after? If not please send us an example file via the help desk so we can see your question in context and an example of the desired result.
Thanks,
Mynda
Beric Boxall
Unsure why it would not allow me to add the full formula, I was trying to include the for exceptions however I have now resolved this simply by taking the blanks away and no longer needing to account for them. Sometimes the obvious answer is just too obvious.
Mynda Treacy
Hi Beric,
It’s probably the HTML formatting interpreting the formula characters as HTML.
Glad you figured it out. Next time try wrapping your formula in Pre tags e.g. <pre>=IF(etc….)</pre>
Mynda
Deronda
My problem is simple but I cant seem to get it right.
I have a column of Names and a column with Y or N
i’m simply trying to create a formula that gives me the % of Y for that particular name
=(COUNTIFs(C2:C16,”L.Woods”, (X2:X16,”Y”)
I’m getting an error ..what am I doing wrong?
Signed,
Beginner Excel user
Mynda Treacy
Hi Deronda,
You need 2 COUNTIF formulas; the first counts the Y’s for that name and the second counts all the Y’s. You then divide one by the other to get the % of Y’s for that name:
Your formula references a range X2:X16. I’m not sure what is in this column or why it’s in your formula. If my formula above doesn’t work then please send us a sample file via the Help Desk so we can see your question in context.
Thanks,
Mynda
Sanjiv Patel
I am counting for instances where status is either Approved OR Implemented, AND Date Received by CAFGB is less than or equal to end of the month of a date in header in row 48 (which is 1st of that month) AND Validation Start Date is either NULL OR in the following month. I am using curly braces for OR condition – along with SUM.
Following works, but it is too long:
=SUM(COUNTIFS(Data[[#Data],[CAFGB Status]:[CAFGB Status]],{“Approved”,”Implemented”}, Data[[#Data],[Date Received by CAFGB]:[Date Received by CAFGB]],”<=" & EOMONTH(AG$48,0), Data[[#Data],[Validation Start Date]:[Validation Start Date]], "")) + SUM(COUNTIFS(Data[[#Data],[CAFGB Status]:[CAFGB Status]],{"Approved","Implemented"}, Data[[#Data],[Date Received by CAFGB]:[Date Received by CAFGB]],"” & EOMONTH(AG$48,0)))
I was thinking that it should work with following shortened expression, but it doesn’t:
=SUM(COUNTIFS(Data[[#Data],[CAFGB Status]:[CAFGB Status]],{“Approved”,”Implemented”}, Data[[#Data],[Date Received by CAFGB]:[Date Received by CAFGB]],”” & EOMONTH(AG$48,0)}))
What am I doing wrong in the shorter version? What can I do to make it work?
Catalin Bombea
Hi,
Can you please upload a sample workbook with your data structure used in this formula? It will be a lot easier to understand the situation and test the solution.
Until then, you can try a general solution:
=SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$A$10={"Approved","Any"})*($B$1:$B$10<=EOMONTH(TODAY(),0))*C1:C10)Use our Help Desk system.
Cheers,
Catalin
Rachana
Hi Mynda,
I using a formula =COUNTIFS(‘6-26-52 Weeks’!G4:G52,”=Mike”,’6-26-52 Weeks’!J4:J52,”=April”,’6-26-52 Weeks’!Q4:Q52,”=Y”‘6-26-52 Weeks’!R4:R52,”=True”)
It doesnt count “Y” from Col Q of all “Mike” in col G with conditions that J should have “April” and Col R should be “True”. It doesnt even throw an error in excel either.
please can you advise.
Regards,
Rach
Catalin Bombea
Hi Rachana,
Please upload a sample file so we can analyze it. Use our Help Desk to send us the file.
Cheers,
Catalin
Rachana
Hi Catalin,
I am using below formula to count all Ys of Mike in another sheet with conditions to check if Months column showing “April” and T/F column showing True. Please can you advise.
=COUNTIFS(’6-26-52 Weeks’!G4:G52,”=Mike”,’6-26-52 Weeks’!J4:J52,”=April”,’6-26-52 Weeks’!Q4:Q52,”=Y”’6-26-52 Weeks’!R4:R52,”=True”)
01/04/2014 31/03/2015
Name Target date Completion date Target Met Months T/F
Mike 01/01/2014 20/12/2014 Y January True
Mike 01/02/2014 02/02/2014 N February False
Jenny 01/03/2014 25/02/2014 Y March False
Jenny 31/03/2014 01/04/2014 N March True
Regards,
Rach
Catalin Bombea
Hi Rachana,
The Months column is in fact a date value, formatted as “mmmm” to show only the month name. You cannot compare a value to a text string.
Use
=SUMPRODUCT((A3:A6="Mike")*(D3:D6="Y")*(F3:F6="True")*(MONTH(E3:E6)=1))to convert dates to months numbers.
Catalin
janine
I have a spreadsheet where Column B contains the numbers either 1, 2, or 3. I want to count the rows that contain a “1” in Column B if there is a corresponding “x” in Column C or D or E and I only want to count it once (because it could contain an x in C and/or D and/or E). Can someone help me?
Mynda Treacy
Hi Janine,
You can use this formula:
Entered with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER as it’s an array formula.
Kind regards,
Mynda
janine
Thanks for the help– but when I input the formula I get the error “a value used in the formula is of the wrong data type”
janine
Mynda Treacy
Hi Janine,
Perhaps your ‘numbers’ in column B are actually text. You can tell by trying to SUM them. If you get an error then they’re text. You’ll need to convert them to numbers.
If that doesn’t work then I’ll need to see your workbook which you can send me via the Help Desk.
Kind regards,
Mynda
ravikumar
wow its super
Mynda Treacy
Cheers, Ravikumar 🙂
Robert
Hi,
I want to use countifs with a date range but subtract 7 days from the date range use to select my occurrencies.
Thank you for your time 🙂
Catalin Bombea
Hi Robert,
Can you upload a sample of your data, it will be useful for us to understand your situation. You can use our Help Desk: https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/help-desk
Catalin
Eric
I’m so glad you still check this for comments, I have a weird issue.
I’m using =COUNTIFS($O$1:$O$130,”=1*”,$R$1:$R$130,”Yes”) and it’s being picky about the O1:O130 range.
If the value in O includes a letter e.g. 1711A it will get counted, however if the value in O does not contain a letter e.g. 1711 it does not get counted! What am I missing?
Catalin Bombea
Hi Eric,
1711A is interpreted by excel as a text string. 1711 is seen as a number, with numbers you have to deal in a different way.
Try:
=SUMPRODUCT((LEFT($O$1:$O$130,1)=”1″)*($R$1:$R$130=”Yes”))
It will work on both text and numbers.
Catalin
Kyle
Hi,
My cells contain one of the four things listed below
1) random dates
2) the letter N
3) the letter I
4) N/A
I’m trying to write a formula that will give me a percentage of the cells that contain dates out of the total number of cells that I have selected. I would also like to exclude from the percentage listed above all cells containing N/A. How would l do that?
Catalin Bombea
Hi Kyle,
Assuming that your range is in column A, starting from row 1, use this formula in cell B1:
=CELL(“format”,A1) and copy it down as needed.
The formula:
will give you the percentage needed.
Catalin
Kyle
The criteria listed above is all listed in the same column. So the individual cell in the column has one of the four criteria listed above. Here is a copy of one of the columns:
Course title
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N
N
9-Dec-13
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N
N/A
N/A
N
N/A
N/A
N
N
N/A
N/A
N/A
N
N
N/A
N/A
N
N/A
N/A
N/A
N
N
N/A
N/A
N/A
N
N/A
N/A
N/A
N
N
N/A
N/A
N/A
Catalin Bombea
Hi Kyle,
Please try the formulas already provided. If the problem is not solved, use our Help Desk System: https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/help-desk to create a sample file and to provide more details on this problem.
Thank you,
Catalin
Nataly
Hello I’m doing the countif formulas correctly.
I could swear to you but it’s telling me that the correct answer is 0.
And I know it’s not, because there are certain products, there’s a few but it keeps telling me it’s 0.
I have no clue why, but do you think you can help me with this? Please.
Mynda Treacy
Hi Nataly,
Sure we can help you. Please send your file with the offending formula to us via the Help Desk.
Thanks,
Mynda.
Sanjiv Hede
Very Useful ones
Thanx & Kind Regards
Mynda Treacy
You’re welcome, Sanjiv 🙂
Jo Case
Hi there
I find your tutorials really helpful. However I’m stuck on a problem that I can’t seem to find a solution to. In the first example above consider you want to know the number of times Doug sold 8 units in the month of January. I have a similar table where I want to know how many decisions a staff member has made in a certain month. The month is found in the same date structure as in your table. As soon as I’m adding the MONTH function in, I’m struggling to find the solution. I’ve tried arrays, and the straight COUNTIFS. Any suggestions? Cheers, Jo
Mynda Treacy
Hi Jo,
You need to give your COUNTIFS a date range that incorporates the month you’re counting. Here is a tutorial on SUMIFS using dates as critiera. The logic for the date range is the same for COUNITFS.
Let me know if you get stuck.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
BAM
Hello
I am working in a table with 9 columns and 50 rows. All cells in the table have COUNTIFS formulas based on the column identifier. I get accurate results from cells in all columns but the last 2 (8 and 9) and I’m not sure why. I feel that the formulas are designed correctly but only “0” is returned in all cells in the last two columns.
Is something wrong with the formula? Is there a limit on COUNTIFS forumlas that can be applied in a worksheet? Have you seen/heard of this before?
Column 1= COUNTIFS(Input!$P$4:P30,”=”&$C$6,Input!$G$4:G30,”=”&B9)
Column 4=COUNTIFS(Input!$P$4:P30,”=”&$F$6,Input!$G$4:G30,”=”&B9,Input!$AC$4:AC30,”=”&”Major Issue”)
Column 6= COUNTIFS(Input!$G$4:G30,”=”&B9,Input!$AC$4:AC30,”=Not Applicable-Issue has insignificant impact”)
Column 8= COUNTIFS(Input!$G$4:G30,”=”&B9,Input!$AC$4:AC30,”=Not Applicable — Issue has no impact”)
Column 9 = =COUNTIFS(Input!$G$4:G30,”=”&B9,Input!$AC$4:AC30,”=Not Applicable — Other”)
Mynda Treacy
Hello again Tina,
Looking at your formulas I would expect Columns 6, 8 and 9 to return zero. The last criteria in each formula is stated with an = inside the double quotes. Now it’s possible this is correct but I suspect not and this is why:
Your formula in column 6 says count the values in G4:G30 that = what ever is in cell B9 AND where the values in AC4:AC30 contain the text =Not Applicable-Issue has insignificant impact
i.e. the equals sign is in front of the text Not Applicable-Issue has insignificant impact like this:
=Not Applicable-Issue has insignificant impact
I suspect the formula should be more like this:
If that’s not the problem, send me the workbook via the help desk and I’ll take a look.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Tina
Hello-
I have a table with 9 columns and 50 rows. All cells have countifs formulas that accurately represent the reference data with the exception of the last 2 columnns. The last 2 columns are not pulling in any data even though the countifs formulas are sturectured exactly the same.
Is there a column limit per worksheet? Am I doing something wrong?
Mynda Treacy
Hi Tina,
Perhaps you can send me the workbook via the help desk so I can see the data you’re working with.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Haitham
HI
is it possible to use a function for count all the cells in a column except the cells those are “empty and have a dates”
Thanks
MikeBanawa
Hello Haitham,
Yes it is possible. You can use a combination of count formulas for your conditions.
But first of all, does your data contain only letters or does it have numbers as well?
I’ll assume your data contains only: Empty cells, Dates and Words/letters/Alphanumeric
Let’s say that all of your data are in Column A1 to A10:
Since dates are numbers and COUNTA will not count empty cells you can combine both formulas by using a simple subtraction:
This formula will return the number of cells that only contains letters.
you can also experiment on the formula =COUNTBLANK which literally counts blank cells in a range.
If you want a bit more detailed explanation on the mentioned formulas, we have a blog post about Excel COUNT, COUNTA and COUNTBLANK Functions. Just follow this link: https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-count-counta-and-countblank-functions
Hope this Helps. Thanks!
Mike
Haitham
Thankd for your efforts!
Jenny
Very helpful page – Thank you! However, I do have a question…
In cell [B12] I have the formula: =COUNTIF(B2:B8, A10)
so count, if cells within the range B2-B8 (then C2-C8 etc) contain the value in A10, (then A11, then A12).
I want to copy this formula across and down, so:
[B13]=COUNTIF(B2:B8, A13) then [C13]=COUNTIF(C2:C8, A13) etc…
[B14]=COUNTIF(B2:B8, A14) then [C14]=COUNTIF(C2:C8, A14) etc…
[B15]=COUNTIF(B2:B8, A15) then [C15]=COUNTIF(C2:C8, A15) etc…
However, when I copy across, the vertical range is correct but the reference cell also increments by one column:
[C13]=COUNTIF(C2:C8, B13) then [C13]=COUNTIF(D2:D8, C13) etc
How do I rectify this? It will be so long winded to type these in manually as I have a few to reference.
Jenny
OMG Sorry – I think I misunderstood the $ thing – I tried it and it works. Fiddly but I am not sure Excel will copy correctly in both directions. I may just have to use =COUNTIF(B2:B8,$A$10) and =COUNTIF(B2:B8,$A$11) etc for all rows before copying across… Sorry to have bothered you!
Mynda Treacy
No problem, Jenny. Glad you figured it out yourself 🙂
Surender
if there is multiples states and in adjacent is cities name how can i count in excel that one state have how many cities
Mynda Treacy
Hi Surender,
Just count the number of instances of states.
Assuming the cities aren’t repeated/duplicated anywhere.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Paul
This was really well-explained. Thanks very much for your effort!
Carlo Estopia
Hi Paul,
Thanks, on behalf of Mynda.
Cheers,
CarloE
Cary
Hello Mynda,
Is it possible to use COUNTIFS in this fashion:
COUNTIFS(b1:b20,criteria,n1:y20,criteria)
I am getting a #value! error and believe that it must be because of the n1:y20 range. Am I only able to compare single columns?
Thank you in advance for your time,
Cary
Carlo Estopia
Hi Cary,
Precisely. You might want to separate the ranges like COUNTIFS(b1:b20,criteria, n1:n20, criteria, y1:y20, criteria)
Cheers,
CarloE
Cary
Thanks Carlo, I appreciate your time!
Rajesh
Many Many Thanks. This is the greatest way to learn.
Best Regards,
Mynda Treacy
Cheers, Rajesh 🙂
Gaurav Sahai Saxena
Can you help me in understanding following formula
=COUNTIFS(‘Tickets Tracking 2013’!$G$7:$G$71, 3, ‘Tickets Tracking 2013’!$H$7:$H$71, 2013) + COUNTIFS(‘Tickets Tracking’!$G$7:$G$73, 3, ‘Tickets Tracking’!$H$7:$H$73, 2013)
Carlo Estopia
Hi Gaurav,
First, it has a sheet called Tickets Tracking 2013
Second, In this sheet, you are counting if
Ranges G7 to G71 has or equal to 3
and
Ranges H7 to H71 has or equal to 2013
First Formula:COUNTIFS(‘Tickets Tracking 2013′!$G$7:$G$71, 3, ‘Tickets Tracking 2013′!$H$7:$H$71, 2013)
Third, You are adding –see the plus (+) sign — the result in the second step (first formula) to the fourth step(second formula):
Fourth, You are counting if
Ranges G7 to G73 has or equal to 3
and
Ranges H7 to H73 has or equal to 2013
Second Formula: COUNTIFS(‘Tickets Tracking’!$G$7:$G$73, 3, ‘Tickets Tracking’!$H$7:$H$73, 2013)
Cheers,
CarloE
Lelbron
Thanks! I needed this for work and your guide was what got me through it!!
Mynda Treacy
Cheers, Lelbron. Glad I could help 🙂
Pam
Hi Mynda,
You make everything sound so easy!!! So I have a spreadsheet that has dates from 7/1/12 – 2/28/13 and I am trying to count how many entries were made for each month but there were several entries that were made on each day, e.g. 5 on 7/2/12, 9 on 7/19/12, etc. but when I use the COUNTIFS formula of COUNTIFS(B2:B1400, “>=7/1/2012”,B2:B1400,”<=7/31/12") it seems to only be counting the dates once. How can I get it to count each entry instead of each date? THANK YOU in advance.
Carlo Estopia
Hi Pam,
Try to check your cell format. It might not be dates.
You may send it also through HELP DESK so we can have a good look at it.
Cheers.
CarloE
Haitham
Someone support me please,
Can I use CountIFs formula with three column, one of these column has two criteria first criteria “On Air” and the second “RFT”
it will appreciated if you know the answer
Regards
Carlo Estopia
Hi Haitham,
Formula:
result: 8
rows 2 and 3 do not qualify.
Please use the data below:
A B 1 On Air RFT 2 Ground RFT 3 On Air QRS 4 On Air RFT 5 On Air RFT 6 On Air RFT 7 On Air RFT 8 On Air RFT 9 On Air RFT 10 On Air RFTCheers.
CarloE
Haitham
Many thanks CarloE
What about the below issue, i used countifs but not work with two text creteia in the same column:
North Done On Air
South Waiting On Air
South Done CW
North Done RFT
North Waiting On Air
South Waiting RFT
North Done On Air
South Done RFT
North Done CW
South Done RFT
=COUNTIFS(A1:A10,”North”,B1:B10,”Done”,C1:C10,”On Air”&”RFT”)
Regards
Mynda Treacy
Hi Haitham,
You can use SUMPRODUCT for counting with OR criteria:
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Haitham
Thank you Mynda and God bless you
Mynda Treacy
You’re welcome, Haitham 🙂
Haitham
Hi Mynda,
i hope u well
kindly I used above formal which was very usful for me but when i replace the “=” by “” then it isnt work properly
can you help please in case i need to use except “” as below formla but it gave me result 12 while it must be 7 :
=SUMPRODUCT(($B$11:$B$194=”Darin”)*(($AC$11:$AC$194″”)+($AC$11:$AC$194″Waiting”)))
Thanks
Mynda Treacy
Hi Haitham,
You have some double quotes after $AC$194 in your formula above. They need to be removed.
If that doesn’t fix it then you can send me the Excel file and I’ll take a look.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
HAMAD ONSO
bring me questions and answers in excel
Carlo Estopia
Hi Hamad,
Please send us your concerns through our HELP DESK.
Cheers.
CarloE
Ross
Hi Mynda,
Really appreciate your clear instructions on the use of the excel formulas – thanks!
However, when I apply the COUNTIFS formula to the following data I just receive a “0” all the time. Here’s the example data and the formula I’ve written (I’m trying to determine how many entries for each Location there are for each Process):
Column B – Process (multiple entries of each of the following)
Search
Service
Access
Column E – Location (multiple entries of each of the following)
T1
T2
Formula:- =COUNTIFS(E2:E1300,T1,B2:B1300,Service)
As I mentioned, the formula continues to just provide “0”.
Appreciate any help you can provide.
Many thanks,
Ross
Carlo Estopia
Hi Ross,
First,
Your formula’s criteria don’t have the double quotes(“) and equal(=) signs:
=COUNTIFS(E2:E1300,”=T1″,B2:B1300,”=Service”)
Second,
It also looks as if you’re trying to provide two criteria for counting; that is,
you likely want to satisfy that Location must be T1 and Process is Service.
And looking at your Example, none would satisfy that. That is, If I understood it
correctly that you’re trying to use this mock data of yours and there no entries after E3 and B4, respectively.
I could see though that your formula reaches 1300.
Please do clarify what are the criteria that you’re really trying to have here.
Send your file to Help Desk for a complete picture of your scenario. Thus we can
have a better look at it.
Sincerely,
CarloE
Subash
Dear Mynda,
First of all thank you for such a wonderful site which helps us so very tremendously.
I have a workbook with several worksheets in it. In the worksheets in different columns I have a reference number. The reference number should not be more than 2 times. Say, once debit and once credit. It is never repeated on the same sheet. I want to use COUNTIFS formula but it always gives me 0, but if I use it only on one sheet it gives me 1, which is correct.
For example in sheet “SUBASH” column “J:J” has the reference numbers and in sheet “MYNDA” column “J:J” has the reference numbers. In Sheet “MYNDA” in cell k2 if I put this formula COUNTIFS(J:J,J2) I get 1 which is correct, as the reference in J2 appears only once in this sheet in the column J:J. When I change the formula to COUNTIFS(J:J,J2,’SUBASH’!J:J,J2) I get the answer 0, where as it should be 2 as the value in J2 in MYNDA also appears in the column J:J in the sheet SUBASH (not necessarily in J2 in sheet SUBASH).
If I get the correct answer, I should be able to drag the formula down so that I get the same result from J3, J4 and so on.
Above I have mentioned only two sheets, but in my workbook I have many more.
Kindly advise how should I go about getting the correct result.
Thanks and best regards,
Subash
Subash
Dear Mynda,
I worked my way out by using the SUMPRODUCT((J:J=J2)+(’SUBASH’!J:J=’MYNDA’!J2)) this formula gives me the correct answer 2. But since I have many sheets, have to write the formula for 20 times in each sheet, would appreciate if there is a shorter formula to capture the data from all the sheets.
Thanks and best regards,
Subash
Carlo Estopia
Hi Subash,
I would suggest that you send your file through Help Desk so I could fully understand what’s going on.
It’s good that you have worked around the problem; however, I need to see the data and the formula and the logic of it so I can help you with it.
Sincerely,
Carlo Estopia
Carlo Estopia
Hi Subash,
I have replied with your recent message.
Anyway, please consolidate all your concerns and send me your file through Help Desk with the mock data and the results or formulas you want to achieve.
Sincerely,
CarloE
Jhosel
I’m find it hard to combined countifs with left formula. Below is my scenario:
Total Age (column A)
37
35
35
35
28
28
Queue (Column B)
2S0096
1S0096
1S0096
1S0096
1S0096
1S0096
Column I need to count all 30 above from column A that is starting with 1S because I need to count all Aged items from 2S separately.
i tried the formula below but it’s not working:
=COUNTIFS(A3:A10,”>=30″,B2:B5,LEFT(B2:B5,2))
Hope you can help me with this. 🙂
Carlo Estopia
Hi Jhosel,
Your formula is good except for the LEFT FUNCTION part. I hope you’ll agree if we would avoid that complication and instead use a wildcard search.
here it is:
=COUNTIFS(A2:A7,”>=30″,B2:B7,”=2S*”)
result : 1
=COUNTIFS(A2:A7,”>=30″,B2:B7,”=1S*”)
result : 3
For more on COUNTIFS
Sincerely,
CarloE
Jhosel
Thanks much with this Carlo! i never knew it could be this simple. ;p This will help me a lot with all the reports that I’m doing. thanks again and keep it up! 🙂
Carlo Estopia
Hi Jhosel,
In behalf of Mynda and Philip, I say you’re welcome.
It’s our pleasure to make our visitors satisfied as much as possible.
Sincerely,
CarloE
Kay
Hi Mynda,
I hope you can help me, I’ve spent hours on this already!!! I need to count the total number of job titles contained in a spreadsheet that do not equal Manufacturing, Agency Manufacturing or Agency Indirect.
Any advice you can give me will be very gratefully received.
Best regards, Kay
Mynda Treacy
Hi Kay,
Assuming your job titles are in cells A1:A5 you can use this formula:
Kind regards,
Mynda.
ABRAHAM
EXAMPLE
A1 B1
ABB 15451
EBB 15454
ABB 159685
EBB 8754
ACC 8759654
ABB 54875
I need to have the total of abb ie 230011 in one cell.
please advise the formula
Mynda Treacy
Hi Abraham,
You can use this formula:
Kind regards,
Mynda.
ABRAHAM
YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!! THANKS A LOT
ABRAHAM
hi thanks for the formulas. i need one more formula: if a certain colum contains different names and the colum next with numbers and i want the total sum of those numbers according to the names then what is the formula? please advise
Nitin G
The explanation part is really Good.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Mynda Treacy
🙂 You’re welcome, Nitin.
Karen
Tried a COUNTIFS formula and it is not returning a number just a value error.
=COUNTIFS($AC$10:$AC$2832,”EAP”,$B$10:$B$2831,B2839)
Will the formula work if some of the cells in column AC are blank?
Mynda Treacy
Hi Karen,
I your second range B10:B2831 is a different size to the first range AC10:AC2832. You need to make them both the same size.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Trish
Hi, wow…thank you for your time here on your website. You explain things perfectly! I recently decided I wanted to learn what excel is all about instead of feaing it and saying “no I don’t like excel”. I am trying to learn how to track expiring certificates at work. Exp: DL from John Doe expires 10/25/2016; next cell would read how many days left until expiration. I also saw how it could be have a color with it. It could turn yellow within 30 days of expiration and red once the day has come and passed.
Again thank you for your time, I hope you can point me in the right direction :)!
Mynda Treacy
Hi Trish,
Thank you for your kind words 🙂
You can use the DATEDIF function to calculate the number of days between two dates (your expiry date and today’s date).
You can then use Conditional Formatting to detect if the date is <= 30 days and colour the cell yellow. I hope that helps. Kind regards, Mynda.
Elijah
how can i count a column but stop counting if data goes to another column on excel
Mynda Treacy
Hi Elijah,
If your data goes into another column then it won’t be in the range of the first column and therefore won’t be counted. I must be missing something? Perhaps you can send me an example.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
RKM
Hi Mynda ,
I just want display the count of two strings belonging to same column
For Ex: Two strings are “Blue” and “Green” I want formula for excel 2007 which counts sum of recurrence of these two strings
Please help me out.
King Regards,
RKM
Mynda Treacy
Hi RKM,
Can you please tell me how your data is laid out, or even better, send me an example by logging a ticket on the help desk.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
RKM
Dear Mynda,
Sure,
As I am not able to raise ticket, I will explain you my problem here only,
See, my data is arranged in following way:
Cell Location Strings
A1 Ram
A2 John
A3 John
A4 Ram
A5 Jack
A6 Ram
I just want formula which give me total count of Ram and John.
Means I want to know What is the sum of John and Ram.
Here we can simply count it as Ram+John=5
I require formula which display count=5
Mynda Treacy
Hi RKM,
=SUMPRODUCT((B1:B6=”John”)+(B1:B6=”Ram”))
More on SUMPRODUCT here.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
RKM
Thanks! Mynda.
saeed
hi
plz can you help me .
i want a formula to write text or number in column A ( example ) and a number in column B then it will paste the text in next column ( 2 or 4 ) according to number i write .
for example :
in column A ( welcome ) and in column B ( 3) so i want ( welcome ) to appear in column C,D & E ( ONCE ONLY) .
AND IF I write 4 then in C,D,E & F .
Mynda Treacy
Hi Saeed,
That’s a good question. Here’s a formula you can use in cell C1 then copy across to D, E and F:
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Cate
Wow! Wonderfullly explained.
Mynda Treacy
Thanks, Cate. Glad we could help 🙂
Abby
SO HELPFUL! Thank you so much for posting this.
Mynda Treacy
Cheers, Abby 🙂
Dee
goodmorning, thanks for the reponse. it is still not working.
The formula needs to meet both criteria 1) wrong status AND 2) CPSUB OR B7SUB OR E9SUB.
It is saying to try DCOUNTA when you click on the function .
I really appreciate your help.
Have agreat day,
Dee
Mynda Treacy
Oh, sorry.
Try:
=SUM(COUNTIFS(‘RAZ00302′!R:R,”WRONG STATUS”,’RAZ00302’!T:T,{“CPSUB”,”B7SUB”,”E9SUB”}))
Enter formula with CTRL+SHIFT+Enter as it is an array. You should be able to see curly brackets at either end of the formula when viewed from the formula bar. Like this:
{=SUM(COUNTIFS(‘RAZ00302′!R:R,”WRONG STATUS”,’RAZ00302’!T:T,{“CPSUB”,”B7SUB”,”E9SUB”}))}
Note: when you copy and paste the formula from the web page you may need to type in the double quotes and apostrophes, as sometimes they are italicised on the web and this won’t work in Excel.
If that doesn’t work I must be missing something so please send me your file by completing a Help Desk ticket on the contact us page.
BTW; I’m not sure what you mean by “It is saying to try DCOUNTA when you click on the function”. But hopefully the above formula will work now.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Dee
hey Mynda,
This is work related so sending the document would probablly be a bad idea. I am sorry. It now works better but is ignoring the last 2 criteria :B7SUB E9SUB. I am so grateful for all your help. You sure do know a bunch about formulas.
have a good night
Dee
Mynda Treacy
I understand. Usually what people do is send me an edited version of their Excel file thus removing any sensitive information. It’s always an option if you get stuck.
Dee
hi. was unable to get it to work and could not get file to upload.
It counts the first item in the array but not the last 2. B7SUB E9SUB .
I guess I’ll just keep trying. appreciate your trying tohelp.
Dee
Mynda Treacy
How big is your file? You could email it to me at website@myonlinetraininghub.com if you want to have another go!
alaiksander
Hi, I have a question on countifs.
My data will be to count information like age (between 7-15), and its city.
=COUNTIF(A:A;”<=15")-COUNTIF(A:N7356;"<7") gives me the correct total of age between 7-15
But when I entered
=COUNTIFS(A:A;COUNTIF(A:A;"<=15")-COUNTIF(A:A;"<7");A:A;B)
excel 2007 gave me error. Will it be possible to count it this way? thanks.
PS:
B = a cell contains city name
Mynda Treacy
Hi,
You need to do it like this:
=COUNTIFS(A:A,">=7",A:A,"<=15",B:B,"City Name")
Kind regards,
Mynda.
alaiksander
Thanks for your quickest reply, It really means a lot of hours to me.
Dee
hello,
I have a formula problem.
I need to count 2 columns, with 2 different criteria, on a different spreadsheet, and have the results end on my last page for graphing purposes.
=COUNTIFS(‘RAZ00302’!R:R,”WRONG STATUS”)
Thia is tracking one of the columns on the razo302 sheet but I also need to track column t. 3 items in column t need to be picked: CPSUB, B7SUB, AND E9SUB
PLEASE ADVISE ASAP—I AM SO EXCITED THAT i FOUND YOUR WEBSITE.
thank you!!!
Mynda Treacy
Hi Dee,
Thanks for your kind words.
Try:
=COUNTIFS(‘RAZ00302′!R:R,”WRONG STATUS”)+SUM(COUNTIF(‘RAZ00302′!T:T,{“CPSUB”,”B7SUB”,”E9SUB”}))
The part in curly brackets {} is an array. Go here for more on Excel array formulas.
I hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Gunnar
I rephrase my previos question to this: Why do you need a sumproduct function at the start of the formula?
Mynda Treacy
Hi Gunnar,
The SUMPRODUCT formula is an array formula (although you don’t have to enter it using CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER), and when used with COUNTIF and INDIRECT as I have done above for Mitchel, it returns the COUNT of multiple sheets and multiple criteria.
If you’re having difficulty counting across multiple sheets then an easier solution is to put a COUNTIFS formula on each sheet and then SUM those results. If you put your COUNTIFS formula in the same cell in each sheet then summing them is quick and easy.
To SUM the same cell on multiple sheets:
1. In the cell you want your summary type =SUM(
2. Click on the first sheet tab and select the cell you want to sum.
3. Hold down the SHIFT key and click on the last sheet.
4. Press ENTER
Excel will sum the same cell for every sheet between the first sheet you selected and the last.
I hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Gunnar
Dear Mynda,
I am trying to use your formula abouve for the countif on several sheets, but can’t get it to work, even if I copy it into an identical workbook.
Can you explain a bit more in detail the indirect function part of the formula, and why you use the type of signs you do:
“ ‘ ” & ” ‘ !B:B”
Thanks!
Mynda Treacy
Hi Gunnar,
I suspect when you copied the formula from the website into Excel the double quotes ” are not formatted correctly. In the webpage above they are italicised for some reason. Try typing them into Excel again. They should then be a regular font and your formula should work.
Alternatively you can download the workbook (see links in the post above) and use the example in the file.
The INDIRECT function, as explained here creates a reference to a cell or range of cells. When referencing other sheets you need to format the reference with apostrophes.
For example references to other worksheets must be formatted like this:
=INDIRECT(” ‘your_sheet_name’!H34″)
Text in double quotes is interpreted by Excel as text (as opposed to an operator or other criteria).
The ampersand (&) joins that text together. So Excel reads ” ‘ ” & “!B:B” as (note spaces inside double quotes are for clarity. In Excel you would leave the spaces out):
‘!B:B
Effectively ignoring the double quotes and ampersand. You can read more about joining text together in my CONCATENATE tutorial.
I hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Katie
Hi,
I am trying to write a countifs that says if column b is in a certain date range, count it, which I have written, but I need a second criteria that says if column has one of five location names (city, state), then count it.
Is it possible to write a countif with an “or” criteria imbedded?
I have countifs(…..E:E,OR(‘Location’!B1,’Location’!D1,’Location’!E1,’Location’!G1,’Location’!H1))
But that didn’t work. I have also tried writing out the location names instead of selecting them from a list, but that didn’t work either…
Any ideas?
Katie
I am trying to write a countifs formula to say if anything in this column is between these dates, count it. Here’s what I have so far =countifs(Q:Q, and(“=1/1/2012”), ….etc)
I want it to say if the contents in column Q are between jan 1 and jan 31, 2012, then count it.
Any advise? Thanks!
Mynda Treacy
Hi Katie,
I find dates used in criteria a bit frustrating and so I tend to use the serial number version of the date in my formula rather than typing in the text version. e.g.
=COUNTIFS(Q:Q,”>=40909″,Q:Q,”<=40939")
Where 40909 is the serial number for 1 Jan 2012, and 40939 is the serial number for 31 Jan 2012.
I hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Katie
Great, thank you!
Jeff
Hi Mynda,
I am creating a dashboard report using Excel 2010. I am using Conditional formatting and a countcolor functions on the sheet – these all work perfectly. I am having issues with my countif(s)? and hope you can help.
My range (I8:AM8) represents individual project milestones being “Complete” or “N/A”. I want my following countif to total the count of “Complete” and “N/A” milestones and divide that total by the total number of milestones.
=COUNTIF(I8:AM8,”Complete”)/31
HOW do I add the “N/A” to this formula? I’ve looked on-line for an hour and asked several folks without luck.
Cheers,
Jeff
Mynda Treacy
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your question.
There are a few ways you could do this. Here are two:
1. If you want to use COUNTIF then you’d need to add two COUNTIF functions together and then divide by 31
So, your formula would look like this:
=(COUNTIF(I8:AM8,”Complete”)+COUNTIF(I8:AM8,”N/A”))/31
2. Or you could use the SUMPRODUCT function like this:
=SUMPRODUCT((I8:AM8=”COMPLETE”)+(I8:AM8=”N/A”))/31
Click here for more on SUMPRODUCT.
If your total number of milestones is variable (i.e. the number 31) you could use a COUNTA function in it’s place to count all cells in the range I8:AM8. So your formulas would look like this:
=(COUNTIF(I8:AM8,”Complete”)+COUNTIF(I8:AM8,”N/A”))/COUNTA(I8:AM8)
and
=SUMPRODUCT(((I8:AM8=”COMPLETE”)+(I8:AM8=”N/A”)))/COUNTA(I8:AM8)
I hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Ibraheem
Thank you very much Mynda for considering my question. I had got the correct results watching your other helpful hints on Youtube and hence did not check for your response and sorry for the same. But now I come across another problem because my boss wants to consider End Dates of employee as well. Suppose he joins 01 September 2011 and his End Date is 31 December 2015, what could be the changes that should be made in my formula. Please make the necessary changes in this one (=COUNTIFS(‘Master List’!$E$3:$E$3210,’Manpower Plan’!$C5,’Master List’!$K$3:$K$3210,’Manpower Plan’!$B5,’Master List’!$N$3:$N$3210,”<="&$TE$2,'Master List'!$O$3:$O$3210,TE$4,'Master List'!$AC$3:$AC$3210,$E$3).
Mynda Treacy
Hi Ibraheem,
Remember, each criteria you add to a COUNITFS function is considered AND. e.g.
=COUNTIFS(critera_range_1,criteria_1, AND criteria_range_2,criteria_2…..and so on if required)
So, to modify your formula you just need to add another reference to your criteria range (the Master List) and the criteria of <=31 Dec 2015 like this:
=COUNTIFS(‘Master List’!$E$3:$E$3210,’Manpower Plan’!$C5,’Master List’!$K$3:$K$3210,’Manpower Plan’!$B5,’Master List’!$N$3:$N$3210,”<="&$TE$2,'Master List'!$O$3:$O$3210,TE$4,'Master List'!$AC$3:$AC$3210,$E$3,’Master List’!$K$3:$K$3210,<=TE$5)
Where TE$5 contains the date 31 Dec 2015.
I hope this makes sense. If not you can send me your Excel workbook and I can send you a specific solution. Just complete a ticket on the help desk which you'll find a link to on the contact us page.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
ibrahim
i want to add multipale column in countifs formulas…?
Mynda Treacy
Hi Ibrahim,
You can set your range to more than one column. e.g:
I hope that helps. If not please send your workbook to me via the help desk so I can see an example of your data.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Ibraheem
Hi Mynda,
I have been watching your helpful tutorials in excel these days and have been using them satisfactorily to process our company’s 5 year Manpower Cost Plan.
I have columns by Name September 2011, October 2011….
I want to place under each month no. of employees who joined before that month.
Can you help how COUNTIFS work in this?
Thanks.
Mynda Treacy
Hi Ibraheem,
Thank you for your question. If I understand correctly you should be able to just use a COUNTA function (assuming your columns have employee names. but use COUNT if they’re listed as numbers). And assuming your month labels start in column A (jan), and you had already populated columns A-D (Jan-Apr), with D (Apr) being the current month, and you wanted to know the number of employees who joined from Jan – Mar your formula would be:
COUNTA($A:$C)
Note: this will sum the whole of columns A & C. If you’ve got cells in these columns that you don’t want to sum then you’ll need to put the exact range in e.g. COUNTA($A$2:$C$500)
I hope this helps you out.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Riyaz Iqbal
Hi Mynda,
I tried this for example for practice and encountered 2 problems.
1. COUNTA($A:$C) counts my headers (names of months too). Is there some way I can count entries in the whole columns except headers?
2. What if I want to maintain a running count of employees? I tried OFFSET function but wasn’t able to get it right. I added a “Employee count” column to the right.
COUNTA(A: column to the left of Employee count) is what I tried. For “Column to the left of Employee count” I tried OFFSET(D:D,0,-1,height,1) I am facing problems with height here. I don’t know how many employee entries will be there in future.
How can I solve this height issue when I know that the column I am interested in is of dynamic height?
Regards,
Riyaz
Carlo Estopia
Hi Riyaz,
Why don’t you send your file via HELP DESK
so we can have a good look at it.
Cheers.
CarloE
Kaushal Verma
I have prepared My excel in this manner :
Column A Column B Column C Column D ……….
ORDER # OPERATOR QC Int. Error External Error
22120205 Nancy Chikie – –
22120207 Alex Kaushal 1 –
And so on……..
I have kept this list under one sheet named as order logged
Now I have prepared another sheet to find their daily productivity
Column A Column B Column C Column D
S.No Name 1 June 2 June ……….
1 Nancy 25 20
2 Alex 16 30
I have made a use of this formula to calculate =COUNTIF($’ORDERS LOGGED’.$B$2:$B$1000;B2)
So i would get the count of file Alex has prepared with a help of this formula which calculate data from order logged sheet.
????? But Now there are few order where in there are sub files in it say 22120207 ……is a one order but it consist of 7 other files ( with certain changes in same type) in it and Alex work on these too under the same order but his count of order is consider as one only….
when he worked on 8 files in total under one order.Which proves the report is incorrect.
So what can be done??????????
I tried this…….
Column A Column B Column C Column D ……….
ORDER # OPERATOR QC Int. Error External Error
22120207 Alex Kaushal 1 –
Alex
Alex
Alex
Alex
Alex like this kept on added his name but this is tedious….which helps to get correct count but I want to know some short way….as there is situation when in one order there are 100 files as well….Hope this will make more sense to the kind of difficulty I have.
I would really appreciate & would be glad to receive your help.
Regards,
Kaushal Verma.
Mynda
Hi Kaushal,
Please send me the file so I can see your data.
To do this go to the Contact Us page and log a ticket. You can upload your file here.
Cheers,
Mynda.
Kaushal Verma
Hi Mynda,
I want to know about this \ suppose there are 7 members..A/B/C/D…..
20 files are shared between them. Now I able to know how many file are prepared by C lets say 5 but if in these 5 files, there were 2 files with Copy Change, so in total he worked on 7 files. Will then this Count-if formula will work or what would the alternative?
Names
A 4
B 6
c 5 two were having sub file (copy change file).
=COUNTIF($C$2:$C$7,$B12) this help me to know that c appears 5 times but does not give me correct productivity of him ?
Please help.
Thanks,
Kaushal Verma.
Mynda
Hi Kaushal,
Thanks for your question. I’m not clear as to whether you want Excel to track this data (whether C prepared, or copy/changed a file) or are you keeping track and entering the data and then just needing to count it?
I’ll assume the latter:
Firstly in order for Excel to count the data, you need to record it in a format it can read. If you want to use the COUNTIF then you would need to lay your data our something like this:
Column A Column B Column C
Name File Name Action (prepare, copy, change)
C xyz.xlsx prepare
A abc.xlsx prepare
C abc.xlsx change
You could then use a COUNTIFS function:
=COUNTIFS(A1:A3,”C”)
This would count every instance of “C” in the range A1:A3.
If this isn’t what you meant please go to ‘contact us’ and log a ticket on the help desk with your file so I can see exatly what you mean.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Mynda
Hi Glen,
I’m not 100% clear on how your data is laid out but I’ll give it a shot:
Can you not use a COUNTIF like this?:
in an empty cell in your workbook =COUNTIF(H$3:H$13,”Jan”)
and in another cell in your workbook =COUNTIF(H$3:H$13,”Feb”)
If that doesn’t ‘stop it hurting’ please log a ticket on the help desk and upload your file or an example of your data so I can see exactly what you’re trying to do.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Lamech
i have a similar challenge; COUNTIF(J5:J106,”Left”)
but unfortunately it does not count all the texts in that range it counts only 1/3 of the total what might be the problem?
regards
Mynda Treacy
Hi Lamech,
I’m not sure but unless the the text in column J only says ‘left’ then it should count them all.
If there is other text with the word ‘left’ then you can append wild cards to pick up anything with ‘left’ in the cell like this:
More on Excel wildcards here.
Kind regards,
Mynda.
Glen
I amy trying to simulate count distinct using a formula I found this morning on google: =SUMPRODUCT((H$3:H$13\)/COUNTIF(H$3:H$13,H$3:H$13&\))
I need to vary this such that I get distinct counts by month. Column A has the month as Jan, Feb…
=SUMPRODUCT((H$3:H$13\)/COUNTIFs(H$3:H$13,H$3:H$13&\,G$3:G$13,=&A3)) does not exactly give me what I need. Column H is a series of names. I want a count of distinct names in Jan, another count in Feb….
Any thoughts?
Please make it stop hurting…. I’ve been at it for 5 hours now, trying various combinations of functions in varying orders with no joy…
Glen
mitchell piedad
I am using the formula countifs as used in the second example, my trouble is when I am trying to get a total covering more than one sheet. Each sheet layout is the same but receive #value error on previous attempts. I am expecting to get the total over 30 sheets.
Mynda
Hi Mitchell,
You need to use SUMPRODUCT to do a 3d COUNTIFS across multiple worksheets. Using the example in my COUNTIFS tutorial above:
=SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIFS(INDIRECT(“‘”&$G$1:$G$4&”‘!B:B”),”Central”,
INDIRECT(“‘”&$G$1:$G$4&”‘!C:C”),”Doug”))
Where G1:G4 contains a list of your sheet names. You will need to put these sheet names somewhere in the worksheet you want your COUNT, and then amend the range in the formula above to suit.
You can also replace “Central” and “Doug” with cell references but remember to drop the “” and just enter the cell reference by itself.
Note: the reference to the column B:B and C:C assumes you want to count the whole column. If not just enter the exact range e.g. B2:B7 and C2:C7.
Alternatively, insert a separate COUNTIFS formula on each sheet, and then SUM the result on each sheet. e.g. =SUM(‘sheet 1:sheet 30’!D2) where D2 is the cell that contains the COUNTIFS formula on each sheet.
I hope one of these helps. Let me know how you go.
Regards,
Mynda.
Mynda
The following question was sent in to me by Helen, but I thought I’d post my reply here for all to see:
Q. I want to count how many cells contain values between two numbers eg -0.5 and -0.25, How can I do this in excel? I use the countif function for specific values but I don’t know how to count between specific values.
A. In Excel 2007 You can use the COUNTIFS formula as follows:
=COUNTIFS(A2:A14,”>-0.5″,A2:A14,”<-0.25") In prior versions of Excel there are various ways to accomplish this, but probably the simplest is an array formula as follows =SUM((A2:A14>-0.5)*(A2:A14<=-0.25)) you have to press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER all together to enter the SUM formula as an array. When you do this correctly the formula looks like this in the formula bar: {=SUM((A2:A14>-0.5)*(A2:A14<=-0.25))} I won't go into the logic of the array formula here, other than to say that when a SUM formula is entered as an array it gives you a COUNT instead of a SUM. Mynda.
jose aviles
hi, I am trying to use excel with xlite soft phone. I am unable to find the formula to connect excel with xlite.. to better explain myself, i use excel to contact customers for business… i need excel to direct itself after i double click on the cube to xlite… and xlite calls for me, instead of me cpoy and past the numbers.. thanks… could some please send me the formula or an excel that already has the formula activated..
weighty
gonna send this to my mom
Mynda
I hope she finds it useful @weighty
John MCc
thanks. This kinda stuff is really hard for me but you explained it really well.
gilmour
Thanks John, glad that we are able to explain it clearly.
synkstar
very useful for my current work
Anil kumar Pandey
Hi Sir Please solve my problem
code 41, code 37 in a single column and in front next single column get A1, A2 i want to count how many code 41 A1 what formula used.
example given below:
SUB MRKGRD
37 92 A2
41 80 A2
37 93 A1
37 90 A2
41 93 A1
41 77 B1
41 80 A2
41 82 A2
37 82 B1
41 72 B1
41 72 B1
Catalin Bombea
Hi Anil,
You can try this formula:
=SUMPRODUCT(($A$2:$A$12=37)*($C$2:$C$12=”A2″))
Change 37 and A2 used in this formula and the ranges to your specific data.
Catalin
Anil kumar Pandey
Hi Sirji
Thanks for Reply
Your
=SUMPRODUCT(($A$2:$A$12=37)*($C$2:$C$12=”A2″)) is ok but my problem as it is.
i want to know for example : code is 37 in front of row A1 or A2 . When put formula answer show.
code 37 A1 is one. please give next formula . Thanking you
Catalin Bombea
Hi Anil,
You can try this file from our OneDrive folder: Unique Count.
Hopefully it answers your questions.
Cheers,
Catalin
Anil kumar Pandey
Hi Sirji
First i would like to Thanks.
You give reply my Question.
Anil kumar Pandey
Hi Sir Again Pandey.
Your formula is excellent. Why doesn’t your formula get copied.
SUB MRK GRD Unique Count
37 92 A2 37A2 37A1 1
41 80 A2 41A2 37A2 2
37 93 A1 37A1 37B1 1
37 90 A2 37A2 41A1 1
41 93 A1 41A1 41A2 3
41 77 B1 41B1 41B1 3
Yes ok it is not it is not
Unique or count it is not done.know what to do. it is last. thanking you sirji
Catalin Bombea
You’re wellcome 🙂
Catalin Bombea
The formula in Unique column is an array formula, should be entered with Ctrl+Shift+Enter, not just Enter after editing the formula.
Catalin
ANIL KUMAR PANDEY
Ok Sir G. Thanks a lots. if i have any problem then i again ask question. Thanks
ANIL KUMAR PANDEY
Sirji (Array formula sheet sent me) for my knowledge.
L.E.:
Hi Sir ji i want to result for given below table. which formulas help we can get how many 41 code get A1 grade or more 37,48 and 63 same. please help me. you can do easily.
Cod MRK GRD
41 95 A1
37 67 C2
48 75 B2
37 67 C2
37 73 C1
41 48 C2
41 68 B2
37 72 C1
41 54 C1
54 59 D1
54 64 C2
48 85 A2
54 63 C2
37 63 C2
41 42 D1
48 83 A2
41 52 C1
41 59 C1
Advance Thanks
Catalin Bombea
Hi Anil,
Please use google translate to provide clear details on what you want: https://translate.google.com/#hi/en/
You already have the OneDrive file with the formulas and a functional solution, it’s not clear what you want, take your time to write the specifications in your own language.
Thank you for understanding
Catalin