What formula do I use?

[Guest]

I work for a small business and have created a spread sheet for each of the
employees tracking thier Vacation Benefit. Currently there is a row that
documents each day that a vacation day is used by the cell being formulated
for date. At the end of the row I have to manually enter the number of days
used. Is there a way for this cell to tally up the days automatically by
counting the number of cells with a date in it. I tried using Logic
functions like IF but I cant seem to get it to work. Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.

thank you

 

[Guest]

have you tried any of the "count" forumlas as in counta? Check to see if you
have a menu bar that looks like fx. click on that and it will show you
different functions. Go to counta and then highlight the area you wish to
count.

 

[Guest]

Let's say you record the vacation days in row #3:

7/15/2007 8/8/2007 11/5/2007


where a date is entered each time a day is used. The formula:
=COUNT(3:3) will tell you how many cells have been filled in this fashion.

 

[Don Guillett]

Try this ARRAY formula that must be entered using ctrl+shift+enter
=COUNT(IF(YEAR(A1:A21)=2007,A1:A21))

 

[James]

I work for a small business and have created a spread sheet for each of the
employees tracking thier Vacation Benefit. Currently there is a row that
documents each day that a vacation day is used by the cell being formulated
for date. At the end of the row I have to manually enter the number of days
used. Is there a way for this cell to tally up the days automatically by
counting the number of cells with a date in it. I tried using Logic
functions like IF but I cant seem to get it to work. Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.

thank you

The =count( ) function should work. But if you are tallying the
number of days used with a number 1, then you can simply use =sum( )
and sum the row.