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Vivek Vivek is offline
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Default Separating data in a column

The following COUNTIF function can be used
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$21,"yes")
The sort or data filter command can be used to separate the replies.

"Gemgirl" wrote:

the spreadsheet i am working on has 1 column with 2 possible answers, i.e.
yes/no. what i need to do is separate the replies and then total the yes
replies in another cell and also total no replies in a different cell. How do
i do it?