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Default CountIf on not number values. How can I solve?

Thank you Rick.


"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

If I understand your layout correctly, you can do something like this to
count all of the, say, American Leaves...

=SUMPRODUCT((B2:B200="American")*(C2:IV200="L"))

where the 200s need to be a number large enough to cover the maximum row
number you ever expect to have data in. You can also adjust the IV column
reference to the actual maximum column you ever expect to have data in. To
get any other statistics, just change the "American" and the "L" to what you
are looking for.

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Nicola M" wrote in message
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Hi all.
Excel 2003.
I need to count not number values using criteria. In the cell to count I
have letters (like A, L, R etc stands for Absent, Leave, Rest etc). THis
count is to be for nation and I have nationalities in unsorted order in an
other cell. I can't use CountIf because cells don't contain number thought
the nation criteria is respected with this function. Using Count or COuntA
I
count correctly the values but without the nation criteria. Even Using VBA
is
there a way to solve this issue?
My sheet headers are on row 1. Data starts from Row 2 with the following
structu
A= Surname and Name; B= Nationality; C to n= Days number

Thanks in advance for every kind of help or suggestion and for my non
perfect English.
Nicola M.