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I have a column that has Y's and N's in it, I need to tally the number of Y's
in the column. Is there a function or some other option for doing this?
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look in the help index for COUNTIF or SUMIF

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Hi,

Maybe this:-

=COUNTIF(A1:A20,"y")

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