Why would you even type in true in an if formula? E.g.

=IF(A12,"True","False")

can be written

=A12

instead, there is no need to write true or false

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Hello Anne -

That doesn't work as I had already tried that......still returns 0.

What it is about True that causes this problem? In the IF formula when I
change the text "True" to the boolean TRUE then use -

=Countif(A10:A20,TRUE)

I get the correct result.

I guess I can use the boolean value but would still like to know why True
doesn't get recognized ?????

Thanks

"Anne Troy" wrote:

"True" (in quotes) means literal text. The text isn't literal. Rather
"true"
in this case is a value. So, you dont' need the quotes in your formula.

=Countif(A10:A20,TRUE)
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"Lookin for a job" <Lookin for a wrote in
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Hello Guys..

I have a range of IF formulas in A10:A20 that return either a text
"True"
(not a boolean) or a blank "" .

There are several "Trues" in the range but when I use -

=Countif(A10:A20,"True")

I get a result of 0.

Why is this?

Thanks