For XL2007:

=COUNTIFS(A1:A100,"Male",B1:B100,"British")


"sarahlbdarling" wrote:

I have two columns of data, one being gender and the other being nationality.
I want to count how many British males there are, I can get the formulas to
work. I have tried many many variations of counta, countif, countifs, if etc
and none work.....where am I going wrong!