what function do I used to have excel search through columns and show how
many times the number I want appears?

Use COUNTIF. For example, to count the no. of times 8
appears in columns A-C:

=COUNTIF(A:C,8)

Of course this only counts cells with 8. Cells such as 88
would be ignored.

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

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what function do I used to have excel search through
columns and show how
many times the number I want appears?



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If you wanted to search through Column A, try this:

=COUNTIF(A:A,25)

If 25 was the number you were looking to count.
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RD

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"Greg B" wrote in message
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what function do I used to have excel search through columns and show how
many times the number I want appears?

Greg

=COUNTIF(A1:D100,123)

Your number being 123


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:59:17 +1030, "Greg B" wrote:

what function do I used to have excel search through columns and show how
many times the number I want appears?

Hi

To count all occurrences of some number in range, like
18
22
180
....
, which contains three number 8's, you can use an array formula (entered
with Ctrl+Alt+Enter) like:
=SUM(LEN(A1:A100)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A100;8;"")))

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"Jason Morin" wrote in message
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Use COUNTIF. For example, to count the no. of times 8
appears in columns A-C:

=COUNTIF(A:C,8)

Of course this only counts cells with 8. Cells such as 88
would be ignored.

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

-----Original Message-----
what function do I used to have excel search through
columns and show how
many times the number I want appears?



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