No man what i am looking for is aformula that would give me the total that 1
has 20 a's something like that

"Richard Buttrey" wrote:

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:11:02 -0700, Fahad Farid Ansari <Fahad Farid
wrote:

I have a question regarding countif formula. I have two columns have value a
b c d in first and in second column i have 1 2 3 4 5 now i want a formula
that could tell me how many a are there that have 1
=countif(A1:A5, "=1") and (b1:b5,"=a") the formula would be something like
this can anybody help

One solution is an array formula.

={SUM((A1:A5="a")*(B1:B5=1))}

Don't forget you need to enter the formula with CTRL SHIFT and Enter
in order to get the squiggly brackets {}.

HTH






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Richard Buttrey
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