The Error Types return text strings

They're not text strings but I don't know the exact terminology. They're not
logicals or booleans but I call them logicals even though Excel defines
logical values as either TRUE ot FALSE.

A1 = #DIV/0!

=ISTEXT(A1) = FALSE

=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"#DIV/0!")
=COUNTIF(A1:A100,#DIV/0!)

Both work.

Biff

"Elkar" wrote in message
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The Error Types return text strings, so a simple COUNTIF should work:

=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"#DIV/0!")
=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"#NAME?")
etc...

HTH,
Elkar


"driller" wrote:

in my formulation list workbook, i have one column filled with different
formulas...
result can be a text, number, and all sorts of known error types....e.g.

#NULL!
#DIV/0!
#VALUE!
#REF!
#NAME?
#NUM!
#N/A

I like to count (A1:A100) how many formula are bearing each error.type...
this may enlighten me how to clean the list of formula bearing correct
results...

pls. bear with me...

regards,
driller
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