mea culpa, I tried a short list and did not verify with the whole column.
Thanks for catching it.

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi

not sure if you can use entire columns in this formula (doesn't work for me
anyway) however,
=SUM(IF(A1:A1000<B1:B1000,1,0))
entered as an array (Control-shift enter)
does work.
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Cheers
JulieD
check out www.hcts.net.au/tipsandtricks.htm
....well i'm working on it anyway
"bj" wrote in message
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for column A less than Column B
one of the methods would be
=SUM(IF(A:A<B:B,1,0))
entered as an array (Control-shift enter)

"Roberta" wrote:

I have two columns of numbers. I need a formula to tell me how many of
the
numbers in column A are less than the numbers in column B.