Let D3:D400 houses sex values, excluding the header...

=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET(D3:D400,ROW(D3:D400)-ROW(D3),,1)),--(D3:D400="M"))

would yield a count males from the area filtered on a set of criteria
applied to other fields.

mar10 wrote:
I have spreadsheet with about 20 data fields (columns). But for
simplicity I've created my question just using a few fields - but
the answer will really apply to the additional fields I have on my
spreadsheet.


I have a spreadsheet the contains the year a new employee was hired,
their name and their sex.

A number of different people will be viewing this and I would like to
allow them to filter what items they'd like to see and then creat a
count on the M (males) and F (females) found on the filtered items.


I was thinking @countif would work, but it does not apply just to the
filtered data. Is there another function I'm not aware of?

Thanks for the help