J
Jay
I've had a very basic formula return results I just cannot understand.
It's a simple COUNTIF(A1:A1500,C5)
C5 contains a text string. The range A1:A1500 contains people's
initials i.e JO, AL, MC etc..
But where the initals aren't known someone has input ?? (2 question
marks) in the range a1:a1500.
Now when I input ?? into C5 to get a count of cells in the range I get
returned a total count of *all* initials, and not just the two cells
containing ??
Now I can't explain this, and I've experimented and it doesn't happen
with just one ? or even three ?. It only happens with 2 question marks.
(it seems to give a count of non-blanks)
Does anyone know what's going on?
It's a simple COUNTIF(A1:A1500,C5)
C5 contains a text string. The range A1:A1500 contains people's
initials i.e JO, AL, MC etc..
But where the initals aren't known someone has input ?? (2 question
marks) in the range a1:a1500.
Now when I input ?? into C5 to get a count of cells in the range I get
returned a total count of *all* initials, and not just the two cells
containing ??
Now I can't explain this, and I've experimented and it doesn't happen
with just one ? or even three ?. It only happens with 2 question marks.
(it seems to give a count of non-blanks)
Does anyone know what's going on?