One way:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:D1B1:E1))

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

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I think this is probably pretty easy.

I have a table here is the first row (starting at a1),
with numbers in
individual columns

A B c
d e
1624 1433 1546
1244 1287
The columns represent years with A being the current
year. I want to count
how many years improved upon the previous year. The
answer is two, C is
greater than D, and A is greater than B. Of course
units went down from E to
D and again from C to B. How do I write a formula that
can analyze the four
relationships across the five years and count how many
times units went down
from one year to the immediately following year?


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