With x's in Column A,

==COUNTA(A1:A25)

will cound *any* entry in the cells.


=COUNTIF(A1:A25,"x")

will count only the x's

In Column B use:

=COUNTIF(B1:B25,"x")*2

will count each x as equal to 2

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"Bryan De-Lara" wrote in message
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Hi all, I am fairly new to excel. I want to put x's into a column and make
each x = 1 then do a count further down. Then in the next column put an x
to = 2 then do another count and so on in more columns increasing the
value of x. I cannot seem to get anything to work. I've tried to put into
a cell x=1 and so on but it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

Bryan.