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Countif not working
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I'm trying to do a simple countif. In column A, I have... A 010020 010020 010020 010020 10020 10020 In another cell, I have =COUNTIF(A:A,"010020"), which results in 6, when I expect 4. It's counting the 10020 entries as well. I want an exact match to the literal criteria I enter. How do I do that? Thanks, Chuck |
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Countif not working
Just use a wildcard to make Excel treat the criteria as text...
Try this =COUNTIF(A1:A10,"010020*") Does that help? -------------------------- Regards, Ron Microsoft MVP (Excel) "c mateland" wrote in message oups.com... Excel 2003 I'm trying to do a simple countif. In column A, I have... A 010020 010020 010020 010020 10020 10020 In another cell, I have =COUNTIF(A:A,"010020"), which results in 6, when I expect 4. It's counting the 10020 entries as well. I want an exact match to the literal criteria I enter. How do I do that? Thanks, Chuck |
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My previously posted formula would count 010020a as a matched item.
A less risky alternative: =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A10="010020")) Note: =SUMPRODUCT(--(A:A="010020")) won't work. You need to use a range that doesn't resolve to an entire column. Regards, Ron Microsoft MVP (Excel) "Ron Coderre" wrote in message ... Just use a wildcard to make Excel treat the criteria as text... Try this =COUNTIF(A1:A10,"010020*") Does that help? -------------------------- Regards, Ron Microsoft MVP (Excel) "c mateland" wrote in message oups.com... Excel 2003 I'm trying to do a simple countif. In column A, I have... A 010020 010020 010020 010020 10020 10020 In another cell, I have =COUNTIF(A:A,"010020"), which results in 6, when I expect 4. It's counting the 10020 entries as well. I want an exact match to the literal criteria I enter. How do I do that? Thanks, Chuck |
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On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 20:40:57 -0400, "Ron Coderre"
wrote: Just use a wildcard to make Excel treat the criteria as text... Try this =COUNTIF(A1:A10,"010020*") Does that help? -------------------------- Regards, Ron Microsoft MVP (Excel) Learn something new every day here. --ron |
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