count with multiple critirea
 

I have a worksheet that contains a date range in column B, and a reason code
(text) in column E. I am trying to count the number of times a reson code is
used for each date. I.E on 1/30/09 how many cells in column E contain reason
"XYZ". Each day a file is created with these exact column headings. The name
of the files is always that days date (Pulled file today so the name of the
file would be todays date). I want to be able to enter a formula in a
seperate workbook that will give me these counts for each days file by
changing the name of the file it references. I hope someone understands this
and can help me, cuz I have spent days messing with array formulas, COUNTIF,
COUNT IF, SUM IF, SUMIF and none of them will work, they all give me the
counts of both that meet the date and the reason code together. That is not
what I am trying to accomplish. SOMONE PLEASE HELP ME!!! THANK YOU IN
ADVANCE!!!!

count with multiple critirea
 

Hi,

The basic idea would be

=SUMPRODUCT(--('[Lesson06.xls]United
States'!$B$4:$B$51=A3),--('[Lesson06.xls]United States'!$E$4:$E$51=B3))

Here I have assumed the Date you want to find is in A3 and the code in B3,
change as needed. You could add the INDIRECT function to allow you to enter
the workbook name in a cell and use that in the formula, but the downside is
that INDIRECT only works against Open files. (Of course you could download a
free copy of Open Office which does allow the INDIRECT function to work
against closed files. Even Lotus 1-2-3 version 1 (1982) allowed this.

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Cheers,
Shane Devenshire


"MANYHEADACHES" wrote:

I have a worksheet that contains a date range in column B, and a reason code
(text) in column E. I am trying to count the number of times a reson code is
used for each date. I.E on 1/30/09 how many cells in column E contain reason
"XYZ". Each day a file is created with these exact column headings. The name
of the files is always that days date (Pulled file today so the name of the
file would be todays date). I want to be able to enter a formula in a
seperate workbook that will give me these counts for each days file by
changing the name of the file it references. I hope someone understands this
and can help me, cuz I have spent days messing with array formulas, COUNTIF,
COUNT IF, SUM IF, SUMIF and none of them will work, they all give me the
counts of both that meet the date and the reason code together. That is not
what I am trying to accomplish. SOMONE PLEASE HELP ME!!! THANK YOU IN
ADVANCE!!!!