Thanks Sandy, just what I needed.
Gordon, it is 5 columns that has x's in rather than ticks. The headers
for the columns are 1 to 5. My boss didn't want numeric entered into the
cells which would have been easy to sum total. So I needed x to = 1 and so
on.
Thanks for the reply.

Bryan.
"Sandy Mann" wrote in message
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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.