counting formula
Thank you guys for all your help ... muchly appreciated.
I used the formula below and it worked brilliantly.
Don, your formula assumes the word Dave is always at the beginning of the
cell. That's my mistake, i didn't mention in my question that there could be
entries like 'From Dave'. But thank you very much, i'm sure it will come a
situation where i'll need to apply the LEFT function. Now i have the answer
in advance.
Thanks again ... Tendresse
"RagDyeR" wrote:
To make the formula more robust, since the Find() function is case
sensitive, you can use the Search() function instead:
=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A100=C5)*(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(D5,B1:B1 00))))
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HTH,
RD
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Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit!
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"RagDyeR" wrote in message
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Say you put the first name in a particular cell, say D5, then try this:
=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A100=C5)*(ISNUMBER(FIND(D5,B1:B100 ))))
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HTH,
RD
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Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit!
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"Tendresse" wrote in message
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i'm using the following formula to count the number of times a certain value
appears in column A when the value in column B=Dave. I want to adjust this
formula so that it counts the number of times a certain value appears in
column A when the value in column B 'contains' the string Dave. Cells in
column B may contain something like Dave Smith (not just Dave).
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A100=C5),--(B1:B100="Dave"))
Thanks in advance.
Excel 2003.
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