division with blank cells

[Guest]

yes
no
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yes
no
yes
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FORMULA

Is there a way for me to put a formula in the Formula cell where it would
divide all the yes's by all the no's without counting all the blank cells.
So the formula would read 3/5 (number of filled in cells) instead of 3/8
(number of total cells in range)

Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Dave Peterson]

If those empty cells are really empty:

=countif(a:a,"yes")/counta(a:a)

If those cells just look empty (contain formulas that evaluate to "")

=countif(a:a,"yes")/sum(countif(a:a,{"yes","no"}))

This will ignore all value that's not equal to yes or no.

 

[Bob Phillips]

=COUNTIF(A2:A20,"Yes")/COUNTA(A2:A20)

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HTH

Bob

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[T. Valko]

Try this:

=COUNTIF(A1:A8,"yes")/COUNTIF(A1:A8,"?*")

 

[Guest]

Something like this prehaps...
=COUNTIF(C1:C8, "yes")/SUM(COUNTIF(C1:C8, "yes"), COUNTIF(C1:C8, "no"))
Format the cell as fraction...

 

[Gord Dibben]

=COUNTIF(A1:A7,"yes")/COUNTIF(A1:A7,"no")

Format as Fraction


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP