Formula needed

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
looking at your sheet you may have posted your used formula in column F

=IF(SUM(C6-E6=0),"-",SUM(C6-E6))

Note: you're not using a FORMAT but a hardcoded string '-'. You said
you were using the accounting format (which would show a zero as '-').
So in your case simply change the formula to
=C6-E6
and apply the correct format

Your sheet containing this is on the way back to you

Note: Also no need for the SUM formulas in your case

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Frank, I have sent you a sample sheet.

Connie

Hi
could you send me an example sheet:
frank[dot]kabel[at]freenet[dot]de

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Newsbeitrag news:[email protected]...

That still gives the answer 3. The "-" is what the accounting formatted cell
yields as the difference between two identical dates. All

numbers in
the

column are the difference between dates in two other columns.

Connie

:

Hi
then your '-' are probably not exact zero. Try:
=COUNTIF(A1:A20,">=-4")-COUNTIF(A1:A20,">0.001")

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Newsbeitrag That formula gives the answer 3. It should be 11.

:

Hi
the '-' is just formated for the value zero?. If yes the following
formulas should work
=COUNTIF(A1:A20,">=-4")-COUNTIF(A1:A20,">0")

or
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20>=-4),--(A1:A20<=0))

adapt the ranges to your needs


--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


Connie Martin wrote:
I get the right answer from the first formula you all

gave,
Bob,

Bernie & Frank. But the other formulas are not working.

I
will

give
you the exact numbers in the column I'm working with now, where
the
formula should yield 11: -
-
-
-
-
(1)
(1)
(1)
3
2
-
-
5
5
5
6
-

There are eight "-" and three numbers in the range of (4) to
breaking
even (the "-").

Connie





:

1. I have a formula I want to change and am not sure how.
=IF(COUNT(L17:L33)=0,"",COUNTIF(L17:L33,"<0"))
I want to now count all numbers from negative 4 and

more.
In

case
I'm not explaining this properly, if the column as these
negative
numbers (5), (3), (7), (8), (1), if would count only 3.

2. I have another formula that needs changing:
=IF(COUNT(L17:L33)="","",COUNTIF(L17:L33,"-"))
First of all, please note, the "-" is not text. It's

the
result

of
breaking even in an accounting formatted column. Okay,

what
I

need
changed is that it would count all numbers from negative

4
to

the
breaking even point. Again, in case I'm not explaining myself
properly, if a column has these numbers: (4), (1), 8,

1, -,
(2),

it
will count 4 from this colum.

Thank you
Connie Martin

 

[Guest]

Hi Frank,

This is a dilemma! Your formula works fine on the worksheet I sent you.
But when I copy and paste it into the real worksheet, change the cell
references, it gives the wrong answer. It gives 3, and yet it's the same as
the one I sent you except for the last row which I added to the one I sent
you. So, I took just the column of numbers on which the formula was based,
and pasted it into another worksheet (values only; accounting format). It
yielded 6 in that worksheet!

By the way, this column of numbers IS formatted "accounting". I don't know
how else to do it other than: Format/Cells/Number/Accounting, which yields
"-" for a zero.

I will work on this myself, and see if I can't figure it out. I'm about to
throw the whole thing out the window. All I want is a formula that yields:
less than -4 but not more than 0.

Connie Martin
Mississauga, Ontario (Canada)

Hi
looking at your sheet you may have posted your used formula in column F

=IF(SUM(C6-E6=0),"-",SUM(C6-E6))

Note: you're not using a FORMAT but a hardcoded string '-'. You said
you were using the accounting format (which would show a zero as '-').
So in your case simply change the formula to
=C6-E6
and apply the correct format

Your sheet containing this is on the way back to you

Note: Also no need for the SUM formulas in your case

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Frank, I have sent you a sample sheet.

Connie

Hi
could you send me an example sheet:
frank[dot]kabel[at]freenet[dot]de

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Newsbeitrag That still gives the answer 3. The "-" is what the accounting
formatted cell
yields as the difference between two identical dates. All numbers in
the
column are the difference between dates in two other columns.

Connie

:

Hi
then your '-' are probably not exact zero. Try:
=COUNTIF(A1:A20,">=-4")-COUNTIF(A1:A20,">0.001")

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Newsbeitrag
That formula gives the answer 3. It should be 11.

:

Hi
the '-' is just formated for the value zero?. If yes the
following
formulas should work
=COUNTIF(A1:A20,">=-4")-COUNTIF(A1:A20,">0")

or
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20>=-4),--(A1:A20<=0))

adapt the ranges to your needs


--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


Connie Martin wrote:
I get the right answer from the first formula you all gave,
Bob,
Bernie & Frank. But the other formulas are not working. I
will
give
you the exact numbers in the column I'm working with now,
where
the
formula should yield 11: -
-
-
-
-
(1)
(1)
(1)
3
2
-
-
5
5
5
6
-

There are eight "-" and three numbers in the range of (4) to
breaking
even (the "-").

Connie





:

1. I have a formula I want to change and am not sure
how.
=IF(COUNT(L17:L33)=0,"",COUNTIF(L17:L33,"<0"))
I want to now count all numbers from negative 4 and more.
In
case
I'm not explaining this properly, if the column as these
negative
numbers (5), (3), (7), (8), (1), if would count only 3.

2. I have another formula that needs changing:
=IF(COUNT(L17:L33)="","",COUNTIF(L17:L33,"-"))
First of all, please note, the "-" is not text. It's the
result
of
breaking even in an accounting formatted column. Okay, what
I
need
changed is that it would count all numbers from negative 4
to
the
breaking even point. Again, in case I'm not explaining
myself
properly, if a column has these numbers: (4), (1), 8, 1, -,
(2),
it
will count 4 from this colum.

Thank you
Connie Martin

 

[Guest]

Frank, forget my previous post. This works. Thank you, and sorry for being
so thick-headed! And I finally understood with what you mean by it not being
formatted "accounting". It was in the formula.

Connie Martin

Hi
looking at your sheet you may have posted your used formula in column F

=IF(SUM(C6-E6=0),"-",SUM(C6-E6))

Note: you're not using a FORMAT but a hardcoded string '-'. You said
you were using the accounting format (which would show a zero as '-').
So in your case simply change the formula to
=C6-E6
and apply the correct format

Your sheet containing this is on the way back to you

Note: Also no need for the SUM formulas in your case

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Frank, I have sent you a sample sheet.

Connie

Hi
could you send me an example sheet:
frank[dot]kabel[at]freenet[dot]de

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Newsbeitrag That still gives the answer 3. The "-" is what the accounting
formatted cell
yields as the difference between two identical dates. All numbers in
the
column are the difference between dates in two other columns.

Connie

:

Hi
then your '-' are probably not exact zero. Try:
=COUNTIF(A1:A20,">=-4")-COUNTIF(A1:A20,">0.001")

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Newsbeitrag
That formula gives the answer 3. It should be 11.

:

Hi
the '-' is just formated for the value zero?. If yes the
following
formulas should work
=COUNTIF(A1:A20,">=-4")-COUNTIF(A1:A20,">0")

or
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20>=-4),--(A1:A20<=0))

adapt the ranges to your needs


--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


Connie Martin wrote:
I get the right answer from the first formula you all gave,
Bob,
Bernie & Frank. But the other formulas are not working. I
will
give
you the exact numbers in the column I'm working with now,
where
the
formula should yield 11: -
-
-
-
-
(1)
(1)
(1)
3
2
-
-
5
5
5
6
-

There are eight "-" and three numbers in the range of (4) to
breaking
even (the "-").

Connie





:

1. I have a formula I want to change and am not sure
how.
=IF(COUNT(L17:L33)=0,"",COUNTIF(L17:L33,"<0"))
I want to now count all numbers from negative 4 and more.
In
case
I'm not explaining this properly, if the column as these
negative
numbers (5), (3), (7), (8), (1), if would count only 3.

2. I have another formula that needs changing:
=IF(COUNT(L17:L33)="","",COUNTIF(L17:L33,"-"))
First of all, please note, the "-" is not text. It's the
result
of
breaking even in an accounting formatted column. Okay, what
I
need
changed is that it would count all numbers from negative 4
to
the
breaking even point. Again, in case I'm not explaining
myself
properly, if a column has these numbers: (4), (1), 8, 1, -,
(2),
it
will count 4 from this colum.

Thank you
Connie Martin