COUNTIF and SUMIF are crappy functions,

they count the below regardless if text or numeric and
if you remove the quotations they do the same but use
a wildcard and it looks for text only

COUNTIF(A1:A10,"1")



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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

"T. Valko" wrote in message
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That'll miss cells which contain just the single entry 1 (if a single
entry has not been formatted as text).

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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=COUNTIF(A1:A14,"*1*").

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HTH

Bob

"mjlunt" wrote in message
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I am trying to count the number of cells that contain the number 1 within
the
data below. The formula that I am using is =COUNTIF(A1:A14,"1"). With
this
formula the value returned to me is 2 however it should be 5. Please
Help!!


2,3
2
2
1,2,3
3
2
2,3
1,2
2
1,2
3
1
1
2