simple counting gone awry
I'm trying to count the number of occurances in a range based on the
value in the cell. for example: a1 has 0.001 a2 has 0.020 ...and so on. I've tried using =countif(myrange,"=a1"), but I get 0 in return. When I know my range has 0.001 in it. what the heck am I doing wrong? Excel 2007 |
simple counting gone awry
Try it like this:
=countif(myrange,a1) The way you had it the formula was looking for the literal string "a1", rather than the contents of A1. The = is implied, and so not needed. Hope this helps. Pete On Nov 10, 12:04*am, Nondisclosure007 wrote: I'm trying to count the number of occurances in a range based on the value in the cell. for example: a1 has 0.001 a2 has 0.020 ..and so on. I've tried using =countif(myrange,"=a1"), but I get 0 in return. *When I know my range has 0.001 in it. what the heck am I doing wrong? Excel 2007 |
simple counting gone awry
=COUNTIF(range,A1) works for me as long as you don't have a rounding
problem. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:04:10 -0800 (PST), Nondisclosure007 wrote: I'm trying to count the number of occurances in a range based on the value in the cell. for example: a1 has 0.001 a2 has 0.020 ..and so on. I've tried using =countif(myrange,"=a1"), but I get 0 in return. When I know my range has 0.001 in it. what the heck am I doing wrong? Excel 2007 |
simple counting gone awry
"Nondisclosure007" wrote:
I've tried using =countif(myrange,"=a1"), but I get 0 in return. When I know my range has 0.001 in it. what the heck am I doing wrong? For one thing, you should write COUNTIF(myrange,"="&A1), although COUNTIF(myrange,A1) would suffice in this case because "=" is implicit. But even so, COUNTIF might return some suprising result because not all values that display as 0.001 are equal. Perhaps the following will work more reliably for you: =SUMPRODUCT(--(ROUND(myrange,3)=ROUND(A1,3))) Change the 3 to 4 or something larger if your intent is to distinguish 0.0011 from 0.0010, for example. ----- original message ----- "Nondisclosure007" wrote in message ... I'm trying to count the number of occurances in a range based on the value in the cell. for example: a1 has 0.001 a2 has 0.020 ..and so on. I've tried using =countif(myrange,"=a1"), but I get 0 in return. When I know my range has 0.001 in it. what the heck am I doing wrong? Excel 2007 |
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