I am putting in a formula to count the number of times a quote is required Indicated by the letter Q in a given column, when I put the formula in for one column I get the correct answer, but when I want to do it for multiple columns I get zero, can anyone help please?
the formula is
=COUNTIFS(D10:D29,"=Q",G10:G29,"=Q")
Try either
=SUMPRODUCT((D10:D29="Q")+(G10:G29="Q"))
or
=SUMPRODUCT(((D10:D29="Q")+(G10:G29="Q")>0)+0)
the former will count 2 if you have Qs in both D10 and G10 - the latter only counts each row once at most, even if there are two "Q"s
countifs criteria are connected by a logical AND. so that formula is saying it must find your string in column D AND in column G. Apparently there are 0 instances of that. if you want the total number of cells with it then make it one range.
If the must be non-contiguous, use multiple countif formulas and add them
as a note, here I would change my formula back to countif, instead of countifs for backwards compatibility since I don't use the extra criteria.
EDIT: my second example was incorrect (See comments) so I removed it
Actually, what I've found is that there is a way better way instead of the sumproduct, which can result in a overly-long formula if you have 5 columns. Instead, I found that using the SUM+IF function as we use the SUMPRODUCT, will achieve the result faster and better.
=SUM(IF((E:I="ABC")*(B:B="DEF"); 1; 0))
This function returns the number of rows that contain both "ABC" and "DEF" in the defined columns.
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Looking to try and find the following in Excel but am having issues getting this to work.
I have Dates in Column A which need to be checked against Dates in the Query Column to compare. I want to count all records where the comparison column is greater than the date in A5 or is an empty cell. There are other conditions that I will also want to check but cannot seem to get this to work.
=COUNTIFS(Query1[Purchased Date],OR(Query1[Purchased Date]="",Query1[Purchased Date]>A5))
use:
=SUMPRODUCT(--((Query1[Purchased Date]="")+(Query1[Purchased Date]>A5)>0))
You can use an array function instead of countif.
Suppose your dates are in the range A2:A25 and your reference date is in cell B2.
If you type in any other cell
=SUM((A2:A25>B2)+(A2:A25=""))
and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter it will give you the count you want.
This happens because Excel will resolve the first inner parentheses (A2:A25>B2) as an array of TRUE/FALSE, and does the same to the second (A2:A25=""). Next it will sum them, which is equivalent to the OR operation, and yields as a result an array of zeros (FALSE) and ones (TRUE). It wraps up by summing this array (with the function sum), all in one cell.
Perhaps this is more of a comment than an answer, but in this particular case you can just add the two separate totals:
=COUNTIF(Query1[Purchased Date],"")+COUNTIF(Query1[Purchased Date],">"&A5)
because the conditions are mutually exclusive.
Whether this helps or not depends on what additional criteria you want to add.
BTW there are two issues with your original formula:
(1) If you are combining lists of values with OR logic, you have to use addition instead (as in the two answers which use Sum or Sumproduct).
(2) The syntax of a Countif or Countifs where the range has to be kept separate from the criteria won't let you do what you want to do, so this again leads you to Sum or Sumproduct.
I'm having a problem writing my formula that should count all selected cells that contain a number bigger than 0 and skip the cells that are completely empty, even when the cell is selected. Excel gives me an error that I selected cells that not contain a number. How can I skip them?
This is my formula:
=COUNTIFS(C8:C12;E8:E12;G8:G12;I8:I12;K8:K12;">0")
I'm thinking you using the COUNTIFS() formula wrong, after each range, there is a criteria. You can't have multiple ranges like that to look through. For more information look here or here.
In your case you are dealing with a non continues range, and one way to deal with that would be this
So the formula would translate to:
=SUM(COUNTIF(INDIRECT({"C8:C12","E8:E12","G8:G12","I8:I12","K8:K12"}),">0"))
Another formula you could try is:
=INDEX(FREQUENCY((C8:C12,E8:E12,G8:G12,I8:I12,K8:K12),0),2)
And looking at your data, it seems as though the rest of the columns contain text (not sure, they may be dates). In case they are text values:
=SUMPRODUCT((ISNUMBER(C8:K12))*(C8:K12>0))
If they are actually dates (assuming from 2018), then you could try:
=SUMPRODUCT((YEAR(C8:K12)<2018)*(C8:K12>0))
I'm assuming this is what you looking for, instead of a VBA based solution due to the tags provided and your formula.
You could also do it in this particular case by skipping the columns that you don't want:
=SUMPRODUCT((C8:I12>0)*ISEVEN(COLUMN(C8:I12)-COLUMN(C8)))
what will be happen if you use the below formula? to you receive an error?
=COUNTIF(C8:C12,">0")+COUNTIF(E8:E12,">0")+COUNTIF(G8:G12,">0")+COUNTIF(I8:I12,">0")+COUNTIF(K8:K12,">0")
Try this
Requirement cannot be done in single formula,
combining 2 or more formula will help fixing the formula.
formula
=COUNTA(B2:B9,D2:D9) -- Count all the non blank cell's
=COUNTIF(B2:B9,"=0")+COUNTIF(D2:D9,"=0") -- Count all the cells will value as 0
Subtract both which will give the output you are looking for
Combined formula
=COUNTA(B2:B9,D2:D9)-(COUNTIF(B2:B9,"=0")+COUNTIF(D2:D9,"=0"))
I need to count all of the occurrences of a given value from a specific range of cells (containing strings or numbers), depending on a parameter stored in another cell.
I prepared a simple Excel table as an example (see attached image): let's say I want to count all of the occurrences of the VALUE "4" for the BASE "100". The result should be: 2 (C4 + C5).
Attached image
I tried to use COUNTIFS and FIND functions but with no results. The former only considers exact values (so the 4 in cell C5 will be ignored) while I seem to be unable to add another condition - the BASE column - to the latter.
Fact is I need to solve this with formulas only, no programming.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Use the SUMPRODUCT:
=SUMPRODUCT(($B$2:$B$10=100)*(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(4,$C$2:$C$10))))
There's a couple of other approaches, the simpler one is just to add another column which identifies matches for you, then have your count just sum the results of that column.
Solution image
So we put the values we want to find in some reference cells, the BASE match goes in G2, and the VALUE we're looking for goes in G3.
In column D we put a formula in D2:
"=IF(B2=$G$2,IF(ISERR(SEARCH($G$3,C2)),0,1),0)"
Returns 0 if the BASE matches and we can find at least one occurent of VALUE
B2=$G$2 - Does the BASE column match the BASE we're looking for
ISERR(SEARCH($G$3,C2)) - Does searching for the VALUE return an error (if it does, we know that VALUE isn't there)
Copy this formula to all the cells in column D, and then you can just use a simple SUM(D:D) to count the occurences where your conditions are met.
The neater but slightly more complex alternative is to use an array formula to do the match finding and counting all in one formula. This would look like this:
"{=SUM(IF(B:B=$G$2,IF(ISERR(SEARCH($G$3,C:C)),0,1)))}"
Pretty much the same as the formulas in column D, but now we use B:B and C:C in place of B2 / C2 etc. and stick the SUM around the whole thing. If you finish editing with Ctrl+Shift+Enter instead of just Enter, that'll make it an array formula.
Microsoft Array Formula Guidelines
NB: this WILL NOT count multiple occurences of 4 in a single VALUE cell.
p.s. Assuming you would want it to actually return 3 in this case (you missed the 4 in C7)
The blue cell summates to 1, but that is not correct and it should summate to more because of the row text match with B47 row. Any ideas what's wrong?
SUMIF is not supposed to work with more than one criteria (you can't check multiple criteria within one SUMIF as you tried in your formula).
This formula will calculate the right result for you: =SUM(B3:BI3*(IFERROR(MATCH(B2:BI3,B47:AL47,0)>0,0))), this is an array formula, so you need to press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER after it.
MATCH(...): look for all students whether they are in the list with requirments (this is the part which works only as array formula)
IFERROR(...): converts #N/A errors to 0
If I am not wrong, you are trying to calculate the number of students for a particular project with skill1 and skill2.
You may also try using COUNTIFS() function. This works for multiple criteria.
I want to Vlookup using two criteria:
the value in Column D;
The amount in Column A and Column G which can be approximately matched.
The normal Vlookup only returns the value of the first row, so one solution I think about is to match both the Invoice Number and Approximately Match the amount.
I am not sure if it is the best solution, please advise a better one, not necessarily in VBA, it can also use INDEX or MATCH functions, etc.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Below is the formula I've been trying, it is like something If true, then this value, if false then Lookup the next one.... But I am still thinking about how to navigate though the Vlookup to search next value, do I need to use VBA to solve this?! Vlookup based on Multiple Criteria2
The following formula should work:
=INDEX(G3:G5,SUMPRODUCT(MAX((D3:D5=B3)*ROW(D3:D5)))-3,1)
That's just a fancier version of Index(Match) that is used as a common replacement for vlookup. In this case, instead of Match we use Sumproduct to get the max row with the criteria we are looking for.
ADDED: Added a -3 to the second paramater of INDEX in order to adjust the Row() returned to the actual range that is being Indexed.