I need my formula to analyse numerical and text data

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I need my formula to look at numerical and text data, can it do that? Eg
COUNTIF(C2:C50,"1",and D2:D50,"M") I know COUNTIF won't work, but how do I
phrase the formula? I have a ton of these to work out for a mega spreadsheet
and I am stuck!! All help appreciated!
 
Hi,
you can but what is the result you are looking for once you met both
condition summarize another column??
 
Hi,
you can but what is the result you are looking for once you met both
condition summarize another column??
 
=SUMPRODUCT(--(C2:C5=1),--(D2:D50="M"))

Will do a countif both columns meet the criteria.
 
=SUMPRODUCT(--(C2:C5=1),--(D2:D50="M"))

Will do a countif both columns meet the criteria.
 
If that 1 is a really a number:
=sumproduct(--(c2:c50=1),--(d2:d50="m"))

or

If that 1 is really text:
=sumproduct(--(c2:c50="1"),--(d2:d50="m"))

Adjust the ranges to match--but you can't use whole columns (except in xl2007).

=sumproduct() likes to work with numbers. The -- stuff changes trues and falses
to 1's and 0's.

Bob Phillips explains =sumproduct() in much more detail here:
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html

And J.E. McGimpsey has some notes at:
http://mcgimpsey.com/excel/formulae/doubleneg.html

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And if you're running xl2007, there's a new =countifs() function. You can read
about that in excel's help.
 
If that 1 is a really a number:
=sumproduct(--(c2:c50=1),--(d2:d50="m"))

or

If that 1 is really text:
=sumproduct(--(c2:c50="1"),--(d2:d50="m"))

Adjust the ranges to match--but you can't use whole columns (except in xl2007).

=sumproduct() likes to work with numbers. The -- stuff changes trues and falses
to 1's and 0's.

Bob Phillips explains =sumproduct() in much more detail here:
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html

And J.E. McGimpsey has some notes at:
http://mcgimpsey.com/excel/formulae/doubleneg.html

=====
And if you're running xl2007, there's a new =countifs() function. You can read
about that in excel's help.
 

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