=SUMPRODUCT(--(A3:A8="red"),MOD(ROW(A3:A8),2))

Counts every other row and if it is "red"

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"Allan" wrote:

Is there an easy way to do a countif with the data in question in every
second column?
The function might look like =countif(A3,C3,E3,"RED")