Try something like this:

With
A1:A20 containing "Yes" and "No" values

This formula returns the count of "Yes" values
B1: =COUNTIF(A1:A20,"Yes")

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"rrr" wrote:

I am trying to create a simple list in a cell: YES or NO. Then I want to
sum the row of YES or NO's. If I can assign a value of 1 to YES and 0 to NO
I can do the math. Not sure how to assign a numeric value to a short list of
text in a cell to enable this math operation.