sk1951, with what you want to count in a drop down in A1 and the range you
want to count in B1:B10

=COUNTIF(B1:B10,A1)
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"sk1951" wrote in message
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is there any way to use functions (lookup, count if, etc) based on the
value in a drop down menu?