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Countif function
I need to find out how this countif works. In my excel class I did the
countif like this. Statistical, countif, I selected the range, press F4, tab and with insertion point in the criteria box I clicked the cell that was needed. It came out really well. However, when I had to do the skills review, I did exactly the same thing, the formula came out, but the answer was obvously wrong. The question was to count the number of employees with a rating of 5. So I clicked in the cell that it needed to go, selected the range of the employee ratings and F4, then selected the other cell that said something like ratings with 5 and the answer came out wrong. The formula looked fine, but the answer was obviously wrong. Can anybody help me figure out what I did wrong? Thanks very much -- joyce |
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Countif function
I never use the Insert Function feature but it sounds like it would be
easier if you just typed in the formula. =COUNTIF(A1:A10,5) -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "joyce los angeles" wrote in message ... I need to find out how this countif works. In my excel class I did the countif like this. Statistical, countif, I selected the range, press F4, tab and with insertion point in the criteria box I clicked the cell that was needed. It came out really well. However, when I had to do the skills review, I did exactly the same thing, the formula came out, but the answer was obvously wrong. The question was to count the number of employees with a rating of 5. So I clicked in the cell that it needed to go, selected the range of the employee ratings and F4, then selected the other cell that said something like ratings with 5 and the answer came out wrong. The formula looked fine, but the answer was obviously wrong. Can anybody help me figure out what I did wrong? Thanks very much -- joyce |
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