Thanks so much for your response. The problem I have is that with 129 kids
who are in class all the time and approximately 35 visitors on any given day,
I needed the 161 rows. Right now I only have 6 tasks that they can do to
earn points, but hope to up that to 25 soon. It just took up so much space
to type out the actual name of the task that I just assigned each of the 6 a
number. The point range is from 1 to 55 (that probably will change as we add
more tasks). This is a project that will run over an extended period and
awards willl be given to the ones with the tops scores, eventually. Now it
looks like this:
#1 #2 #3 #4
#5 #6
Child's name 15 5 30 10
25 50
Child;s name 10 20 50 45
15 55

Hope this makes my delima a little more clear. I am not familiar with
"countif) since in am not really very skilled at Excel. Your assistance is
greatly appreciated.
Linda

"MartinW" wrote:

Hi,

COUNTIF is what you are looking for.
e.g.
=COUNTIF(A2:F161,15)
will return any instance of 15 in your data range.

HTH
Martin


"TN Judge" wrote in message
...
I have 129 kids at my church and they have been charged with doing certain
things to earn points. I am making a spreadsheet to record their
accomplishments, like, if they study their lesson they get 10 points, if
they
memorize a verse, they get 15 points, if they participate in a fund raiser
they get 50 points, and so on. I have a chart that shows their points and
can figure out their total points earned. However, I want to know how
many
times a certain chore was completed. I am trying to find out how many
times
each point value appears in the whole chart. That way I'll know which
things
the kids are doing the most, which may show me I need to add or delete an
assignment. Right now I have A2 through A161 and A - F columns. Anyone
have
a light bulb go on??? Thanks.