Hi, I know how to use auto sum feature using numbers,but I need it to pick up
a letter rather than numbers. Can this be done, as I need to use "H" for
holiday,but need this to be deducted off a spread sheet every time it is used.

Thanks

Assuming you have days worked in column A with the odd "H" for holiday thrown
in.

=SUM(A1:A30)-COUNTIF(A1:A30,"H")


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:36:00 -0700, Dave wrote:

Hi, I know how to use auto sum feature using numbers,but I need it to pick up
a letter rather than numbers. Can this be done, as I need to use "H" for
holiday,but need this to be deducted off a spread sheet every time it is used.

Thanks

Nope. You need something like=SUM(IF(H1:H3="H",1,H1:H3))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.
Excel will automatically enclose the formula in braces (curly brackets), do
not try to do this manually.
When editing the formula, it must again be array-entered.

--
HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

"Dave" wrote in message
...
Hi, I know how to use auto sum feature using numbers,but I need it to pick
up
a letter rather than numbers. Can this be done, as I need to use "H" for
holiday,but need this to be deducted off a spread sheet every time it is
used.

Thanks

Maybe you can use:
=countif(a1:a10,"h")
to count the number of cells that contain H.

I don't think that you'll be able to use the autosum icon to implement this.

Dave wrote:

Hi, I know how to use auto sum feature using numbers,but I need it to pick up
a letter rather than numbers. Can this be done, as I need to use "H" for
holiday,but need this to be deducted off a spread sheet every time it is used.

Thanks

--

Dave Peterson