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Default COUNTIF() with multiple criteria

Unfortunately Excel help only explains the basics of SUMPRODUCT. However,
there's a page with very good explanation of SUMPRODUCT at:
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html

-Simon

"Thansal" wrote:

Thank you that is working well for me.

However, if you would not mind I do not realy get exactly what it is
doing. I looked up SUMPRODUCT and I see what it does. However I do
not know what the "--" operator does (nor do I realy understand how
Excel handels multiplying the parts of a one column array).

Thank you again!

AlexV

Vito wrote:
If you put your combinations in say 3 columns,starting at say Row 2

e.g. D2,E2,F2 = 1,0,0 respectively, D3,E3,F3 = 1,1,0 respectively,
etc...


Then you can use:

=sumproduct(--($A$2:$A$100=D2),--($B$2:$B$100=E2),--($C$2:$C$100=F2))
and copy down. Where A2:C100 contain the combinations.

Adjust ranges and references to suit you.


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