you're welcome
"cashgrfx" wrote in message
...
You have been extremely helpfull!! Thank you!!

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi

generally it's best to put the Yes in another cell e.g. B1 and the
COUNTIF
formula in say C1 and then you can use
=COUNTIF(A1:A100,B1)

however, if you want to put it in the same cell and you don't mind the
number of yes answers being treated as text rather than a number you can
do
this
="Yes = " & COUNTIF(A1:A100,"Yes")

Hope this helps
Cheers
JulieD

"cashgrfx" wrote in message
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Thank You very much!! However, I have another question now, is there a
way
to show Yes = ? (the number returned by the countif statement) in the
cell
with the statment? In other words, instead of just the value showing
in
the
cell, can I add a "Yes =" and the value appear after the "=" sign?
Thanks
again!!

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi

you can use the countif function to return the numbers of "yes" and
"no"
e.g.
=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"yes")
will count the number of "yes" answers in the range A1 to A100
likewise,
=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"no")
will count the number of "no" answers in the same range

Hope this helps
Cheers
JulieD

"cashgrfx" wrote in message
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I am attempting to calculate a number of specific word occurrences.
In
example, I have a column with yes in certain cells, and no in the
others.
How can I display the total number of yes and no occurrences? I am
fairly
new to Excel and know very little about coding in it.