Try this:

=COUNTIF($A$4:$A$20;"John")

Regards,
KL

"Teri" wrote in message
...
I have a worksheet with one column of names (and many more columns of data
to
include months). I need to have a count on the bases of the name without
getting the data out of monthly sequence.

I have tried IF(a4:a20=John,CountA,0). This of course does not work. What
do I need to do?

Thanks
Teri