Use COUNTIF

=COUNTIF(A:A,"category")

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)



"Daiv" wrote in message
...
I have a database that generates multiple reports about a companies
transactions based on where the funding is from, and the programs it is
dispersed into. When generating these reports I would like to count the
transactions listed under each category, and again at the end with a total
#.
what function could I use for this? I tried the count function in a
query
but it didn't give me options for "group by" or "count" and complained
when i
typed them in.

Thanks!