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counting characters issue
I have the following data. i need to count those recorrds where there length
is less than 12 characters. I used =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(Sheet1!F:F)<12)) but excel falls down saying the cells are formatted as text or contain an apostrophe. i tried to format the cells as general but still won't work. Other users will use this so i don't want a lot of user intervention. FunctLocation 12087359305PV1525 12087325530DRIVE 12087350101 12087320109PV4201 12087325350PIPING 12087325001 12087325759LR-F01 -- Regards vipa |
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I think your problem is selecting the whole of column F
Sumproduct cannot take whole column, only a defined range. =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(F1:F7)<12)) rturned an answer of 2 with your data -- Regards Roger Govier "vipa2000" wrote in message ... I have the following data. i need to count those recorrds where there length is less than 12 characters. I used =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(Sheet1!F:F)<12)) but excel falls down saying the cells are formatted as text or contain an apostrophe. i tried to format the cells as general but still won't work. Other users will use this so i don't want a lot of user intervention. FunctLocation 12087359305PV1525 12087325530DRIVE 12087350101 12087320109PV4201 12087325350PIPING 12087325001 12087325759LR-F01 -- Regards vipa |
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Hi,
I suggest trying text to columns on the column F:F. 1) Select column F:F 2) Data - Text to Columns (on the menu bar) 3) Delimited 4) Choose ' as the delimiter 5) Finish Does that work? Regards, A "vipa2000" wrote: I have the following data. i need to count those recorrds where there length is less than 12 characters. I used =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(Sheet1!F:F)<12)) but excel falls down saying the cells are formatted as text or contain an apostrophe. i tried to format the cells as general but still won't work. Other users will use this so i don't want a lot of user intervention. FunctLocation 12087359305PV1525 12087325530DRIVE 12087350101 12087320109PV4201 12087325350PIPING 12087325001 12087325759LR-F01 -- Regards vipa |
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This worked for me
=SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(Sheet1!F1:F1000)<12)) it counts empty cells. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "vipa2000" wrote in message ... I have the following data. i need to count those recorrds where there length is less than 12 characters. I used =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(Sheet1!F:F)<12)) but excel falls down saying the cells are formatted as text or contain an apostrophe. i tried to format the cells as general but still won't work. Other users will use this so i don't want a lot of user intervention. FunctLocation 12087359305PV1525 12087325530DRIVE 12087350101 12087320109PV4201 12087325350PIPING 12087325001 12087325759LR-F01 -- Regards vipa |
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No unfortunately A. It appears that Roger (another answer) has identified the
same conclusion I had come too via another thread I have. I need to keep it really simple. It looks like the way to do it is to make sure that may ranges are sufficiently large to cater for any data set that I or a user paste in. -- Regards vipa "aristotle" wrote: Hi, I suggest trying text to columns on the column F:F. 1) Select column F:F 2) Data - Text to Columns (on the menu bar) 3) Delimited 4) Choose ' as the delimiter 5) Finish Does that work? Regards, A "vipa2000" wrote: I have the following data. i need to count those recorrds where there length is less than 12 characters. I used =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(Sheet1!F:F)<12)) but excel falls down saying the cells are formatted as text or contain an apostrophe. i tried to format the cells as general but still won't work. Other users will use this so i don't want a lot of user intervention. FunctLocation 12087359305PV1525 12087325530DRIVE 12087350101 12087320109PV4201 12087325350PIPING 12087325001 12087325759LR-F01 -- Regards vipa |
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This works for me =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(Sheet1!F1:F65536)<12)) HTH Ola Sandström -- olasa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ olasa's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=17760 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=390872 |
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