Counting differences in numbers across columns

[Guest]

I think this is probably pretty easy.

I have a table here is the first row (starting at a1), with numbers in
individual columns

A B c d e
1624 1433 1546 1244 1287
The columns represent years with A being the current year. I want to count
how many years improved upon the previous year. The answer is two, C is
greater than D, and A is greater than B. Of course units went down from E to
D and again from C to B. How do I write a formula that can analyze the four
relationships across the five years and count how many times units went down
from one year to the immediately following year?

 

[Jason Morin]

One way:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A11>B1:E1))

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jason, that worked great, I just needed change the '>' to a '<'.

Big help!!

 

[Bob Phillips]

=SUM(IF(B2:F2>A2:E2,1,0))

which is an array formula, so commit with Ctrl-Shift-Enter

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HTH

RP
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