On 14 Nov, 19:49, Johnnyboy5 wrote:
On 13 Nov, 22:36, LMH wrote:



You don't say precisely what you are trying to achieve with your subtotal
I assume you are using it to show the number of rows visible after filtering.
So I'm guessing you are using SUBTOTAL(2,<range). (2 = COUNT)
If so, try SUBTOTAL(3,<range) for the columns containing text. (3 = COUNTA)
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LMH

"Johnnyboy5" wrote:
I have a worksheet with two columns that have text in them (names,
area) *the other columns are numbers, *when I use the auto filter
function all the other columns can be made to work with the subtotal=
function, *but I cant get the name or area to appear in the filter I
just get a "0"

any ideas

many thanks

Johnny
.

Tried it, *no joy. * I am just needing the text label to populate the
name and not return a "0" or some other ref.

This link to another post of mine has fix the problem

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mic...86fd250?hl=en#