Excel problem At the mo i am trying to get o formula to work for excel. Lets say that i want to count up all the a entries in colum B that have an yes entry on the same row in colum C ? i have been trying this for 5 hours and my hair is starting to fall out , please can you help ?

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download excel user manual (pdf version ) and it will explain how to write the formula to make it work

Hi, Not sure if this is what you have tried:
1: Assuming each run is on a different column
Run1 Run2 Run3 Run4, etc...and the maxium lenght of each column is 9 values, but each colum has a different lenght of numbers..
Then you can use:
=MAX(COUNTIF(A2:A10,"<>0"),COUNTIF(B2:B10,"<>0"), {keep adding countif for each colum).

If all runs are on the same colum, then using Pivot tables is easier. If you have a copy of your data, please post it so that I can give you the exact formula ;)

Hello this is Baris,
Can you tell me more about this employee. Are you creating an excel spreadsheet to keep record of his days. Are you just getting the numbers from an outside source like a schedule.

To be able to give you an answer I will assume that you have the info already in the same spreadsheet.

Lets say Column A is the days of the month.
Column B is the information column like the hours that the employee worked. If the month has 31 days this is what you need to do.
Click on the cell B32 and type the formula
=count(B1:B31) and press enter. This will count the number off cells which have a value in it in that month.

If you provide me more info we may come up with a better solution. Hope this helps :)

This tutorial also helped me much to understand how vlookup works:

http://www.myhowtoos.com/en/excel-howtoos/84-how-to-match-values-in-excel-using-vlookup

The formula in both versions is the same:

=countif(range,value)

i.e. The below formula will increase its count by one if any of the 18 cells it's checking are equal to 1.
=countif(A1:B9,1)

You may want to try =COUNT(A1:C9) for example. In brackets type the range of cells you want to count and excel will give you the number of cells that contain numbers.

add the correct formula to count the column and or rows

Lets say your data (cars) is in range "D1:D21".

You need to know how many are Dodge and Ford in cell E1.

=COUNTIF(D1:D21,"Dodge") + COUNTIF(D1:D21,"Ford)

Hope this helps.

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sorry, I need a bit more information, because if as you say, column d contains text data such as RO, MO etc, then Excel can't perform a calculation such as MO*70 ?