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I have a column that I would like to tally up how many times text has been
entered. There are 300 rows and a number of these rows have yes entered - I
would like to know have text. Thanks. Using 2007.
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Try this:

=COUNTIF(A1:A300,"*?")

Will count *only* text!
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I have a column that I would like to tally up how many times text has been
entered. There are 300 rows and a number of these rows have yes entered - I
would like to know have text. Thanks. Using 2007.


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=COUNTIF(A1:A300,"*")


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I have a column that I would like to tally up how many times text has been
entered. There are 300 rows and a number of these rows have yes entered - I
would like to know have text. Thanks. Using 2007.

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A different interpretation............

=COUNTIF(A1:A300,"yes")


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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:51:04 -0800, slavenp
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I have a column that I would like to tally up how many times text has been
entered. There are 300 rows and a number of these rows have yes entered - I
would like to know have text. Thanks. Using 2007.


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