Me again! Some of our students have to attend 6 times and some 7. They are
listed down column A with various details (including attendance) running
across the row. At the end of all of their attendance days is a 'total
attendance'column. Assuming they all attend all of the days (I wish!!) is
there a one formula fits all solution to show the percentage of attendance
for each student. If they do attend 6 or 7 (as required) it will still amount
to 100%. I could then copy that formula down all of the students and this
would save separate formulae for each of the 6's and 7's. A nightmare to sort
out!
Thanks

How do you indicate in column A that it should be 6 or 7 attendances for
each student? Is your attendance shown as Y and absence shown as A, or do
you have some other codes? Do you leave the column blank for a student who
is not expected to be in (on the 7th session)?

Please give a few more details.

Pete

"Chris" wrote in message
...
Me again! Some of our students have to attend 6 times and some 7. They are
listed down column A with various details (including attendance) running
across the row. At the end of all of their attendance days is a 'total
attendance'column. Assuming they all attend all of the days (I wish!!) is
there a one formula fits all solution to show the percentage of attendance
for each student. If they do attend 6 or 7 (as required) it will still
amount
to 100%. I could then copy that formula down all of the students and this
would save separate formulae for each of the 6's and 7's. A nightmare to
sort
out!
Thanks

Thanks Pete. I was hoping to use Y and A but having already had some
problems with using a letter (with autocorrect that affected the whole
suite!) I was hoping to just use a 1 for attending and 0 for non attendance.
The 7th attendance, if not needed, would be blank. If that would create yet
more problems maybe you have a suggestion?
Chris

"Pete_UK" wrote:

How do you indicate in column A that it should be 6 or 7 attendances for
each student? Is your attendance shown as Y and absence shown as A, or do
you have some other codes? Do you leave the column blank for a student who
is not expected to be in (on the 7th session)?

Please give a few more details.

Pete

"Chris" wrote in message
...
Me again! Some of our students have to attend 6 times and some 7. They are
listed down column A with various details (including attendance) running
across the row. At the end of all of their attendance days is a 'total
attendance'column. Assuming they all attend all of the days (I wish!!) is
there a one formula fits all solution to show the percentage of attendance
for each student. If they do attend 6 or 7 (as required) it will still
amount
to 100%. I could then copy that formula down all of the students and this
would save separate formulae for each of the 6's and 7's. A nightmare to
sort
out!
Thanks

No, that's fine. COUNT(range) will count all the cells which are not empty
and which contain numbers, so that represents the maximum attendances
expected. COUNTIF can be used to count only the cells containing a
particular value (1), so you can put these together to get a percentage:

=COUNTIF(range,1)/COUNT(range)

and format the cell as a percentage. Here "range" will be something like
B2:AM2 for the first student in row 2, and then you can copy this down for
the other students.

Hope this helps.

Pete

"Chris" wrote in message
...

Thanks Pete. I was hoping to use Y and A but having already had some
problems with using a letter (with autocorrect that affected the whole
suite!) I was hoping to just use a 1 for attending and 0 for non
attendance.
The 7th attendance, if not needed, would be blank. If that would create
yet
more problems maybe you have a suggestion?
Chris

"Pete_UK" wrote:

How do you indicate in column A that it should be 6 or 7 attendances for
each student? Is your attendance shown as Y and absence shown as A, or do
you have some other codes? Do you leave the column blank for a student
who
is not expected to be in (on the 7th session)?

Please give a few more details.

Pete

"Chris" wrote in message
...
Me again! Some of our students have to attend 6 times and some 7. They
are
listed down column A with various details (including attendance)
running
across the row. At the end of all of their attendance days is a 'total
attendance'column. Assuming they all attend all of the days (I wish!!)
is
there a one formula fits all solution to show the percentage of
attendance
for each student. If they do attend 6 or 7 (as required) it will still
amount
to 100%. I could then copy that formula down all of the students and
this
would save separate formulae for each of the 6's and 7's. A nightmare
to
sort
out!
Thanks

Thanks Pete, that worked brilliantly. After 2 days of slogging on it I had
given up hope and lost the will to live! Thanks
Chris

"Pete_UK" wrote:

No, that's fine. COUNT(range) will count all the cells which are not empty
and which contain numbers, so that represents the maximum attendances
expected. COUNTIF can be used to count only the cells containing a
particular value (1), so you can put these together to get a percentage:

=COUNTIF(range,1)/COUNT(range)

and format the cell as a percentage. Here "range" will be something like
B2:AM2 for the first student in row 2, and then you can copy this down for
the other students.

Hope this helps.

Pete

"Chris" wrote in message
...

Thanks Pete. I was hoping to use Y and A but having already had some
problems with using a letter (with autocorrect that affected the whole
suite!) I was hoping to just use a 1 for attending and 0 for non
attendance.
The 7th attendance, if not needed, would be blank. If that would create
yet
more problems maybe you have a suggestion?
Chris

"Pete_UK" wrote:

How do you indicate in column A that it should be 6 or 7 attendances for
each student? Is your attendance shown as Y and absence shown as A, or do
you have some other codes? Do you leave the column blank for a student
who
is not expected to be in (on the 7th session)?

Please give a few more details.

Pete

"Chris" wrote in message
...
Me again! Some of our students have to attend 6 times and some 7. They
are
listed down column A with various details (including attendance)
running
across the row. At the end of all of their attendance days is a 'total
attendance'column. Assuming they all attend all of the days (I wish!!)
is
there a one formula fits all solution to show the percentage of
attendance
for each student. If they do attend 6 or 7 (as required) it will still
amount
to 100%. I could then copy that formula down all of the students and
this
would save separate formulae for each of the 6's and 7's. A nightmare
to
sort
out!
Thanks

Well, Chris, I hope you are suitably invigorated now to face the next
challenges - thanks for feeding back.

Pete

"Chris" wrote in message
...
Thanks Pete, that worked brilliantly. After 2 days of slogging on it I had
given up hope and lost the will to live! Thanks
Chris

"Pete_UK" wrote:

No, that's fine. COUNT(range) will count all the cells which are not
empty
and which contain numbers, so that represents the maximum attendances
expected. COUNTIF can be used to count only the cells containing a
particular value (1), so you can put these together to get a percentage:

=COUNTIF(range,1)/COUNT(range)

and format the cell as a percentage. Here "range" will be something like
B2:AM2 for the first student in row 2, and then you can copy this down
for
the other students.

Hope this helps.

Pete

"Chris" wrote in message
...

Thanks Pete. I was hoping to use Y and A but having already had some
problems with using a letter (with autocorrect that affected the whole
suite!) I was hoping to just use a 1 for attending and 0 for non
attendance.
The 7th attendance, if not needed, would be blank. If that would create
yet
more problems maybe you have a suggestion?
Chris

"Pete_UK" wrote:

How do you indicate in column A that it should be 6 or 7 attendances
for
each student? Is your attendance shown as Y and absence shown as A, or
do
you have some other codes? Do you leave the column blank for a student
who
is not expected to be in (on the 7th session)?

Please give a few more details.

Pete

"Chris" wrote in message
...
Me again! Some of our students have to attend 6 times and some 7.
They
are
listed down column A with various details (including attendance)
running
across the row. At the end of all of their attendance days is a
'total
attendance'column. Assuming they all attend all of the days (I
wish!!)
is
there a one formula fits all solution to show the percentage of
attendance
for each student. If they do attend 6 or 7 (as required) it will
still
amount
to 100%. I could then copy that formula down all of the students and
this
would save separate formulae for each of the 6's and 7's. A
nightmare
to
sort
out!
Thanks