Comments on: How to use Excel COUNTIFS and COUNTIF with multiple criteria

The tutorial explains how to use COUNTIFS and COUNTIF formulas with multiple criteria in Excel. You will find a number of examples for different data types – numbers, dates, text, wildcard characters, non-blank cells and more. Continue reading →

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  1. Hello Sir, first of thing, thank you very much for your help with a lot of information in your website, unfortunately, I am still having a problem. Could you help me please?

    The formula to count and multiply that I am using is:

    =((COUNTA(C5:E5;G5:I5;K5:M5;O5:Q5;S5:U5;W5))*4)+((COUNTA(B5;F5;J5;N5;R5;V5)*10))

    However I want count only text values (GR, CH, IT, MI) and multiply by 4 and 10, and not the values (FER, GER). In the same cell I can setup all the values with menu row. If I set up the value FER or GER, the cell dont will be counted.

    thanks in advanced.

  2. Hello Sir, I need help with the same kind of a situation. I have multiple criteria from the same column so i am using an array. I am using the below formula but seeing incorrect results.. please suggest an alternative. I will try to put it across as good as possible but please let me know if you need more information.

    =SUM(COUNTIFS(CriteriaRange1,{criteria 1, criteria 2, criteria 3},CriteriaRange2,{criteria 4, criteria 5, criteria 6},CriteriaRange3,{criteria 7, criteria 8, criteria 9}))

  3. Hi i need help with my table can you help me my table goes like this
    Term Definition Function/formula
    1 Adding
    2 Subtracting
    3 Multiple
    4 Divide
    5 Sum
    6 Min
    7 Max
    8 Count
    9 Counta
    10 Average
    11 Median
    12 Concatenate
    13 If
    14 Countif
    15 VLookup

  4. Hi! I am trying to create the count if function with multiple criteria, but I cant seem to get it to work. This is for scoring a particular skill with a set score for each questions. I don't have any problems if the score is constant, but how about if I have 2 scores?

  5. Hi Svetlana,
    I am looking for a solution where I will search 3 values in one column like "cancelled" or "pending" or "in transit" and then pick the corresponding value in the product column in a list. So I want index with countif, if that makes sense to you. Because match can not find 3 values and then give me the corresponding values in the product column.
    Regards,
    Abrar

  6. Hi,

    I have a question - What formula do I use when I have column that shows OPEN (AR3 cell) and all the tally numbers below AR3 cell AR4 to AR122 to match for QTY on hand column (D3) for each P/N D4 thru D122. Next day the OPEN will move to AT3 cell and AR3 cell will be closed.

  7. Hi,

    I am trying to use countifs using a range. I would like to it to count items that meet the first 2 aspects ('Sheet1'!$C:$C,"PHASE",'Sheet1'!E:E,"CONTACT") but the third aspect I would like it to count a range.

    For a single column in the 3rd aspect, this formula works:

    COUNTIFS('Sheet1'!$C:$C,"PHASE",'Sheet1'!E:E,"CONTACT",'Sheet1'!Y:Y,"CRITERIA")

    The issue I am having is that I would like to count for a range in the 3rd aspect. It would look like :

    COUNTIFS('Sheet1'!$C:$C,"PHASE",'Sheet1'!E:E,"CONTACT",'Sheet1'!Y:AH,"CRITERIA")

    I tried cheating and using this:

    COUNTIFS('Sheet1'!$C:$C,"PHASE",'Sheet1'!E:E,"CONTACT",'Sheet1'!Y:Y,"CRITERIA")+
    COUNTIFS('Sheet1'!$C:$C,"PHASE",'Sheet1'!E:E,"CONTACT",'Sheet1'!Z:Z,"CRITERIA")+
    COUNTIFS('Sheet1'!$C:$C,"PHASE",'Sheet1'!E:E,"CONTACT",'Sheet1'!AA:AA,"CRITERIA") etc.

    This really bogs down the whole workbook.

    What would be a better way to accomplish the same count? I haven't used VB in awhile but would be open to revisit if it can help here.

    Any help is highly appreciated.

    Thanks

  8. hi. i have a question.
    say i have 6 sheets in my excel system and all the sheets in column A have dates then column B has a name. so i want a formula that count the name if it falls in a certain date. But in the case that the same name appears in all the 6 sheets on the same date i want it to only count the name once. May you assist.

  9. I want to ask how if I need to find 2 criteria on 1 range, example: I have data apple, banana, grape, coconut and I need to count apple and coconut in 1 row

    1. Hi,
      Have you tried the ways described in this blog post? Pay attention to the following paragraph of the article above — How to count cells with multiple criteria (AND logic)
      The formula will be something like this

      =COUNTIFS(A1:A10,"apple",B1:B10,"coconut")

      This should solve your task.

  10. Hi,

    In the example below, I'm trying to figure out a formula that will count the number of tags that have task progression. If a tag has multiple tasks that are "Done" I only want the count to be 1. Below the count should be 3. I would also like to be able to have a count for "Type A" (count=2) and "Type B"(Count=1)

    Tag Type Task Progress
    B345 Type A 1 Done
    B345 Type A 2 In progress
    B345 Type A 3 In progress
    R378 Type B 1 In progress
    R378 Type B 2 Done
    R352 Type A 1 In progress
    R352 Type A 2 In progress
    R352 Type A 3 Done
    R352 Type A 4 Done
    R843 Type B 1 In progress
    R843 Type B 2 In progress
    R843 Type B 3 In progress

    Thank you

    1. Hi,
      I hope you have studied the recommendations in the tutorial above. It contains answers to all your questions.
      A conditional formula might look something like this:

      =IF(COUNTIFS(A2:A13,"B345",B2:B13,"Type A",E2:E13,"Done")>0,1,"")

  11. hi
    in the below formula when i give a single reference as A14 it is working fine if i give multiple range from A14 to A16 this formula is not working
    =countifs('ABC Daily'!$A$3:$A$100,$A$14,'ABC Daily'!$R$3:$R$100,$M3,'ABC Daily'!$S$3:$S$100,Q$1)
    could you please me to solve this

    1. Hi!
      You didn't write which formula you are having problems with and where you wanted to add the range. Which formula doesn't work?

  12. Hi, please advise how to use countif formula if figures are in time
    Example : Total 10:26 9:54 10:15 9:21 9:30 9:55 00:00 00:00 9:39 4:15 9:28 9:57

    Now i have to calculate in above data figures less than 7:00

  13. I am trying to use function countif with greater than or equal to criteria in a particular list.
    e.g there are 70 numbers in a list. Criteria checks numbers less than 50, 50 to 100, 100 to 150, 150 to 200 and above.

    Now from the same count, i want to search the maximum and minimum number from same.

    Please help on this.

    1. Hello!
      You can use the COUNTIFS function as described in the paragraph above: How to count numbers between 2 specified numbers. Then use the MAX function to find the largest number.
      Also you can do calculations with one array formula and FREQUENCY function.
      I hope I answered your question. If something is still unclear, please feel free to ask.

  14. =COUNTIFS(DB10,"",DG10,"") is what I use, my mistake in my first email.

  15. =COUNTIFS(DB10,"",DG10,"") does not work. I see your examples have ranges but in my situation I need a formula to only count specific cells with a date, not through a range. My understanding is counting cells with different dates can be an issue because the dates are numbers and text so I use anything. works in a range with dates in some cells and no dates in other cells and nothing else.
    What I am trying to calculate, in a very basic way, is the number of cells with a date.

    Thank You

    1. Hi!
      Dates in Excel are stored as numbers. If you write down the date as text, you cannot perform any calculations with it.
      Here is the article that may be helpful to you: COUNTIF formulas for dates.
      For me to be able to help you better, please describe your task in more detail. Please specify what you were trying to find, what formula you used and what problem or error occurred. Give an example of the source data and the expected result.
      It’ll help me understand it better and find a solution for you.

  16. Hello ,

    I have a question

    I am trying to create a formula that is excuted as following:

    I am working on 2 spreadsheets(tabs) named indicators and FNCI maj :

    in spreadsheet 1 FNCI maj there are multiple dates from 2017 till 2021

    in spreadsheet 2 indicators there are indicators where i am applying the formula

    i want a function that could count the number of cells that contain the month march and are in year 2021.

    So basically counting all the cells that contain a given month in a given year ,

    i've been trying but without success

    i tried using this formula

    =SUMPRODUCT((MONTH('FNCI maj'!B2:B404)=3)*(YEAR('FNCI maj'!B2:B404)=2021))

    Thanks for your help

    1. Hello!
      I used the formula in my workbook

      =SUMPRODUCT((MONTH(B1:B400)=3)*(YEAR(B1:B400)=2021))

      It works without errors. I cannot verify your external references.
      Check if your dates are written as text.

  17. How would I count instances of values over a range where a cell contains multiple values? I'm collecting data from a Forms for Excel survey where it separates multiple choices as "Choice A;Choice B; Choice D; All of the above"

    Is there a version of COUNTIFS that will read that range and count instances of just one of these, when the cell may contain more than one? I guess I want this to work kind of like the Find All function

  18. I have an excel document with three tabs named Cases, Closed Cases, Collection Sheet. On the Collection Sheet tab I collect data on cases i.e. open, closed, etc. I have copied all the closed cases onto a new tab - Closed Cases as they were all on the Cases tab previously, however doing this, the formula that was put into the Collection Sheet to count them is no longer valid as I have moved the data (hope this makes sense). Therefore I am trying to put a formula on the closed cases tab to count all of the columns with a 'C'. The previous formula was =COUNTIF(Cases!04:0911,"C"). I naively thought if I changed Cases! to ClosedCases! this would solve my problem but no. Can you advise what formula I need to put in please?

    1. Hello!
      If you weren't copying, but moving the data, the formula would change automatically. I recommend checking the sheet name in the formula - Closed Cases or ClosedCases. If this does not help, re-specify the range with the mouse when correcting the formula.

  19. Need assistance with the following:

    =SUM(COUNTIFS(Sheet1!$C$10:$C$27;"Eastern";Sheet1!$F$10:$F$27;{"1";"2";"4";"6";"7";"12";"13";"27";"28";"31";"32";"33";"34";"35";"37";"43";"45";"46";"48"}; Sheet1!$N$10:$N$27;{"File";"Incomplete";"Detected";"Withdrawn"}))

    The selection return "0" even though a record exist.

    1. Hello!
      I don't have your data, so I can't check how the formulas work.
      I recommend checking how the numbers in the range Sheet!1$F$10:$F$27 are written. Your formula checks the text, not the numbers in those cells.

  20. Hi Alexander

    I must admit when I first saw your latest reply to this problem I still couldn't see why the formula wasn't working but then suddenly, just by chance, I noticed the {} surrounding the criteria and behold when using these the formula works.

    It was just pure luck I eventually noticed my error.

    Thanks for your help though.

  21. Thanks Alexander for your reply.

    The error I get is

    https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/38b1b648-6844-4b27-80db-638e4b8f225c.png

    The formula I'm using is the one I put in my original post above and there are no semicolons in sight. I'm not sure what you mean by "...what sort of quotes are you using." All I can say is the quotes are those used in the aforementioned formula which again is

    =SUM(COUNTIFS(B$5:B49,("RICHARD","ALAN")))

    I hope this clarifies things and I look forward to your suggested solution.

    Many thanks

    1. Hello!
      If you specify 2 criteria for COUNTIFS, then you need to do this as described in this manual.
      Or you can write these criteria as an array.

      =SUM(COUNTIFS(B$5:B49,{"RICHARD","ALAN"}))

      I think that was your problem.

  22. Hi

    I'm having difficulty with one of your suggested formulas and in particular one which is covered under heading

    https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/excel-countifs-multiple-criteria/#count-cells-multiple-criteria-OR-logic

    and sub heading.

    Formula 2. SUM COUNTIFS with an array constant

    The formula is 'SUM(COUNTIFS(range,{"criteria1","criteria2","criteria3",…}))' and it just isn't working for me. I keep getting a warning that it isn't a valid formula.

    Is there a minimum Excel version that this only works with?

    I'm sure I'm applying it correctly but just in case I'm missing something I have a table 49 rows high and column B contains a list of 6 different names which appear randomly and are repeated randomly. Two of the names are Alan & Richard who both appear numerous times so I created the following formula to count the rows that contain either

    =SUM(COUNTIFS(B$5:B49,("RICHARD","ALAN")))

    But, this doesn't work. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong.

    Many thanks.

    1. Hello!
      This function is available since Excel 2007. Please describe your error in more detail. Your Windows may not be using a comma as the list separator, but a semicolon. Also note what kind of quotes you are using.

  23. =COUNTIFS('Loading Summary'!A:A, B3, 'Loading Summary'!E:E, "*Y*") This works,

    but this doesn't work =COUNTIFS('Loading Summary'!A:A, B3, 'Loading Summary'!E:AH, "*Y*")

    I want to give the range from Column E to Column AH to check if there's letter "Y" for a specific Unique ID in Column B3 and count how many are there

    1. Hi!
      Pay attention to the following paragraph of the article above — Excel COUNTIFS - things to remember. It contains answers to your question.

  24. Hi, I realized I have exactly the scenario that can't be covered by COUNTIFS (point 2 under Things to Remember): "Each additional range must have the same number of rows and columns as the first range (criteria_range1 argument)."

    Illustration for simplicity: Col A has country values. Col B to D have 3 survey question responses.

    With a simple COUNTIF, I can count how many "Strongly Agree" from B to D.

    But I'm trying to those who "Strongly Agree" from "USA" only.

    The naive way is to expand Country to 3 columns so that the range matches, but is there a better way? Also, I'm dealing with..... OMG about 100 columns PER question. My column names are in the triple alphabets!

  25. Which formula do I use if I want to count the number of entries in one column that refers to a specific month (e.g. how many entries for the month of March) that also has an entry (of any written text) in another column (this will be a column that refers to a specific behaviour but could be varied for each row e.g. physical aggression in one row but verbal aggression in another row)?

    Hope you can help.

    2. And to clarify a bit further, I do not want to know how many physical aggressions or verbal aggression entries there are individually but just how many entries appear in that column for a particular month altogether.

  26. Hello! and thanks a lot for your response. I have tried all possible options of countifs I thought to have understood... the question is; have I done it correctly....? I doubt it.... :(

    From your suggestion, I tried

    =SUM(COUNTIFS(range,{criteria1,criteria2,criteria2})
    The range columns "B:T" and (criteria, branch, call outcome and moth)=0

    Selected all the range where the data is and choosing criteria 1,2 &3; Branch, month, and call outcome... but if this option can be used in this scenario, would the range for the constant array be grouped separately from the other two criteria?

    Could it be that countif is not the right formula? I have looked into vlookup, xlookup and sumproduct but I am not sure they are the right formulas.

    I have listed the data below, I hope this helps as no option to paste a screenshot here.

    CALL OUTCOMES - (these are 15 outcomes to choose from; listed below, in columns (I,L,O,P,Q,R,S,T) each client may have a different outcome each time in the 8 calls.

    Call other time (see notes)
    FE - Incorrect number
    FE - Message left on machine
    FE - No answer
    FE - Pt not in
    FE - Pt. moved out
    FE - Phone unobtainable
    First Consultation
    FU
    FE FU - call another time
    FE FU - No answer
    FE FU - Pt. Abroad
    FE FU - Pt. not in
    FE FU - Unwell
    FE - Decease

    BRANCH is in column F
    DSDK
    EEMC
    SHC
    TFP
    ULMC

    MONTH in column B

    Thanks again, for looking into this. I hope this makes the question a bit clearer.

    1. Alexander, thank you so much for your help!! I am so grateful and very impressed with how kind and patient you have been.

  27. Hello, and thank you in advance for your help. I need to collate from a data set of a calling center the following:
    1. Branch
    2. Month
    3. Call outcomes collected 8 colums (I,L,O,P, Q,R,S,T). There are 12 different call outcomes eg (didn't answer, person not in, etc) so, the report tells me:
    In April, Branch "A" reported that 10 calls weren't answered, 5 the person wasn't in and so on
    I have tried COUNTIFS but does not do the trick... I get VALUE error. Is this because one criteria is counted several times in different columns some of which are adjacent? or this is not the formula i should use?
    I hope this makes sense, thank you!

    1. Hello!
      Without seeing your data it is difficult to give you any advice. If I understand your task correctly, pay attention to the following paragraph of the article above — Add up two or more COUNTIF or COUNITFS formulas.
      If this advice does not help, write what formula you use and what exactly you want to calculate. It’ll help me understand it better and find a solution for you.

  28. Hi there,

    I am having a dataset of people contacting me with Hours of the day (ColA), Date (ColB). Now I want to create a table where I will see how many times in that hour someone contacted me so I can create a hit map. I am quite struggling with what formula to use which will return the number of a contact in that hour of the specific day. Any help?

    1. Hello!
      If you want to get a list of contacts for a specific day and hour, then use the FILTER function. Read this detailed guide.
      If you want to count how many times a person has contacted you at a certain time, then use the COUNTIFS function. Read this article above.

  29. Hi,

    My query might be basic but I am not able to solve it.
    I have the below table (part of a large database). The first column is product type and the rest columns are product SKUs with quantities in data fields. There are 2 blanks (3rd column 4th cell and last cell of the table). I want to find how many non-blank cells of each product type are there. "-" is a non-blank cell but the quantities are not clear. A blank cell simply means there is no such SKU for that product.
    I was thinking of COUNTIFS but cannot create anything.

    Please help. Thanks a lot.

    Type I II III IV
    S 25 - 50 -
    I 25 12 2 12
    S 1 - 2
    A 25 - 33 21
    I 12 - 1

      1. Thanks, Alexander.

        But that example has only one type of data (i.e. numbers) on which there are conditions.
        In the table I have, the first criterion is matching the text and then other criteria have to check against numbers, special characters, and blanks. A simple countifs won't work I guess. It has to be a combination of other functions as well.

        The answer I am looking for would say something like:
        Type S and type I have 7 non-blank data fields and Type A has 4 non-blank data fields.

        Thanks.

    2. just to clarify, in the third last row, the quantities are 1, blank, -, 2 and the last row has quantities 12, -. 1, blank.

  30. If I have a sheet that contains dates in Column B (Heading row for Column B has a start date in B1 and End date in B2) and multiple other columns, one (Column L) contains specific words.
    How can a count the number of specific words, in Columns L that fall between 2 dates in Column B?

    For example I have dates from January 1 to March 31 in Column B. I have the word Weston in Column L multiple times. I want to find out how many times Weston between between January 10 to January 16.

    I've tried Countif, Countifs, if(and, if(or, nested if. I am pretty good with excel and teach it, but this one is stumping me.

    Sylvia

    1. Hello!
      Please use the following formula/the formula below to solve your task:

      =COUNTIFS(B1:B10,">="&DATE(2021,1,10),B1:B10,"<="&DATE(2021,1,16),L1:L10,"Weston")

      Read this tutorial on how the COUNTIF function works with dates.

      1. Thank you very much. This had been a great help. I will be definitely be referring back to you if I have any other questions.

  31. Hi Im trying to look for a formula for this scenario, I have product a, b,c,&d (up to z or more)

    each product can fall in different levels that are updated daily between level 1,level 2 and level3. Is there a formula that can generate daily(todays date) numbers per level for each product?

    I hope you understand what Im trying to say

    logged as

    PRODUCT column 1 , LEVEL column2 , DATE column 3

    a level 1 march 24

    b level 2 march 23

    c level 3 march 24

    d level 1 march 22

    HOPING OUTCOME in separate sheet)

    UPDATE FOR TODAY DATE MARCH 24 (assuming)

    Column 1 level , column 2 total number of account that fall on todays date

    LEVEL 1 - 1

    LEVEL 2 - 0

    LEVEL 3 -1

    Thank you

    currently my brain is twisted and for me to generate that is to update manually the range daily =COUNTIF(V1581:V2983,"LEVEL 1") which is very hustle because I need to change all levels (16) daily range and rearrange all products that fall on the todays date

    1. Hello!
      If I understand your task correctly, the following formula should work for you:

      =COUNTIFS(B2:B100,"level 1",C2:C100,TODAY())

      I hope you have studied the recommendations in the tutorial above. It contains answers to your question.

      1. Thank you,ive tried rhis formula before but unfortunately
        Excel always Pops up youve entered too many arguments for this function

        This is a big big help ill try to look for errors in my template

        Thank you so much

  32. I am using a COUNTIFS function to build a report but need one of the many criteria to be a calculation. Specifically I need one of the criteria to count if the Completion Date column is a date after the Due Date column. The formula will be modified to also count when Completion Date ">10" days after Due Date to be counted. How do I embed this calculation comparing dates in a COUNTIFS function?

    It is a large data set of over 1,000 rows and it is for a daily report, so row numbers vary daily but column headings do not change. The dashboard tab is where the formula will reside but the COUNTIFS function pulls from different tabs in same spreadsheet if that matters.

    Thanks!

    1. Hello!
      Unfortunately, without seeing your data it is impossible to give you advice.

      I'm sorry, it is not very clear what result you want to get. Could you please describe your task in more detail and send us a small sample workbook with the source data and expected result to support@ablebits.com? Please shorten your tables to 10-20 rows/columns and include the link to your blog comment.

      We'll look into your task and try to help.

  33. Hello,

    I'm pulling my hair out. I'm trying to count the number of cells where one range contains specific text and another range is less than today's date. I need both conditions to be true before the cell can be counted. The formula below is not working. Should I use a function other than COUNTIFS?

    =COUNTIFS(C6:NH6,"*-B*",C3:NI3,"<"&TODAY())

    1. Hello!
      The ranges of criteria in the COUNTIFS function must be the same size. For instance:

      =COUNTIFS(C6:T6,"*-B*",C3:T3,"<"&TODAY())

  34. pls help me for the below.
    A series of numbers repeated many times in a database for certain day. How to count the repeated occurrence of the series of numbers on that particular day in the database.

    1. Hi,
      I’m sorry but your task is not entirely clear to me. Could you please describe it in more detail? What result do you want to get? Give an example of the source data and the expected result.

  35. Question:
    For the table below I'd like to count the number of staff leads who had at least one encounter in a specific time frame and the number of these who's last encounter was in a specific region

    I'd like to accomplish this using a single cell formula/array formula with no helper cells/columns.
    If it helps in understanding the formula feel free to show the helper cells but use of helper cells is not the way I'd like to do this -- since the table/worksheet is dynamic and i'm interested in using workbook real estate for other data.
    I'm not good at vba, so, while it may another option it would be a steeper learning curve for me to understand and implement.

    ex:
    1. count number of team members who had an encounter between 7/1/20 and 6/30/21, then
    2. report the number of leads whose last encounter within the time frame was in the MidWest
    expected ans:
    1. 9/10
    2. 3/10

    Date Region Lead Customer Product
    10/14/2021 MidWest* Tina Amazon CIN Item
    1/7/2021 SouthEast Tina Google Doc COL Item
    10/26/2020 PureWest Chin High Def AIM Item
    5/20/2020 PureNorth Chin OverDone AIM Item
    9/24/2020 MidWest* Sue High Def RAD Item
    1/14/2021 MidWest* Fran Economist AIM Item
    4/3/2020 PureWest Tina High Def RAD Item
    1/20/2021 NorthEast Batt Economist DAB Item
    2/26/2020 SouthEast Tina H and eMA RAD Item
    12/16/2021 MidWest* Gigi OverDone AIM Item
    4/5/2020 NorthEast Batt Amazon AIM Item
    6/24/2020 NorthEast Tina Yahoo Mag RAD Item
    8/22/2021 SouthEast Chin McLendon's RAD Item
    11/9/2021 NorthEast Pham Costco's CIN Item
    3/23/2021 MidWest* Fran High Def XOL Item
    10/3/2020 MidWest* Sue Peet's Nut RAD Item
    4/4/2021 MidWest* Batt Amazon AIM Item
    1/5/2020 NorthEast Shelia High Def CIN Item
    11/6/2021 NorthEast Gigi Women's AIM Item
    9/25/2021 SouthEast Sioux Amazon XOL Item
    11/12/2021 MidWest* Sioux Economist RAD Item
    12/7/2020 PureWest Gigi Google Doc CIN Item
    11/5/2021 PureNorth Sue Quality FC AIM Item
    9/30/2021 NorthEast Gigi Peet's Nut CIN Item
    8/27/2020 NorthEast Fran H and eMA AIM Item
    8/18/2021 NorthEast Gigi OverDone XOL Item
    2/19/2020 PureNorth Tina H and eMA RAD Item
    12/11/2021 NorthEast Gigi McLendon's AIM Item
    3/17/2021 NorthEast Pham McLendon's COL Item
    12/1/2020 PureNorth Sioux Economist RAD Item
    4/5/2021 NorthEast Fran H and eMA NEE Item
    6/4/2020 MidWest* Sioux Google Doc AIM Item
    7/19/2021 PureWest Sioux Google Doc AIM Item
    4/25/2020 PureNorth Sue High Def COL Item
    9/24/2021 PureWest Sue OverDone AIM Item
    6/17/2020 MidWest* Tina McLendon's NEE Item

  36. Hello!

    I am trying to get a formula that would count the cells in column c2:c150 that are greater than 400, less than 500, and the cells in column H2:H150 equal "10"

    Can this be done?

    Thank you in advance for your assistance!

    1. Hello!
      I hope you have studied the recommendations in the tutorial above. It contains answers to your question. Please specify what formula you used and what problem or error occurred.

  37. hello,
    i need a little help :)
    i have a excel file with some documents with barcode and date+time when are created and i need to do somehow so that i know how many documents are before 14:00 PM.The format of the cell is like this 16.02.2021 17:41:37(all this are in a single cell).I can split date and time but i dont know what formula tu use.tks

    1. Hello!
      To calculate how many documents are before 14:00 today, use the formula:

      =SUM(--(A1:A10<=(TODAY()+TIME(14,0,0)))*(A1:A10>TODAY()))

      I hope I answered your question. If something is still unclear, please feel free to ask.

      1. hello,is not working.i think because in my collumn i have data+time(in the same collumn),i cam split them but then i dont know :).
        can we somehow comunicate via email? i want to sent you my excel file :)

        1. Hi,
          The formula I sent to you was created based on the description you provided in your first request. The cell contains date + time. Everything works. Perhaps your data is not recorded as date and time, but as text.
          Send us a small sample workbook with the source data and expected result to support@ablebits.com. Please shorten your tables to 10-20 rows/columns and include the link to your blog comment.
          We'll look into your task and try to help.

          1. Hello,
            i send the email,tks again.Have a nice day

    2. i forgot to say that i could have hundreds of document in the same day so date is the same just time is different

  38. What if I need to validate the "Sheet No MP1" from a dropdown list for the below criteria

    =COUNTIFS($E$5:$E$10,"=Posted", $F$5:$F$10,"=Sheet No MP1")

  39. Hello - I am currently using this formula to search for a single value in a range of cells:
    =IF(COUNTIF(AS2:AU2,"*" & "Help Center" & "*"),"True","False")

    However, rather than matching to a single value of "Help Center" with wild card existing anyplace within AS2:AU2, I want to search for multiple values so I don't have to repeat the search multiple times. The values I want to search for are:

    Help Center
    helpcenter

    Can you help?

    1. Hi,
      I’m sorry but your description doesn’t give me a complete understanding of your task. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the formula below will help:

      =IF(COUNTIF(AS2:AU2,”*” & A1 & “*”),”True”,”False”)

      After that you can copy this formula down along the column.
      A1 -- Help Center
      A2 -- helpcenter etc.
      If this is not what you wanted, then describe the problem in more detail.

      1. Thanks for the response. This is a long spreadsheet that gets sorted frequently or filtered. Ideally the search values would be on another tab, and not added into a row on the current tab.

        Something like this, with a filter:
        =IF(COUNTIF(AR2:AT2,"*" & !Filter,C1:C7" & "*"),"True","False")

        I also tried this, but it gives a Spill error:
        =IF(COUNTIF(AS2:AU2,"*" & {"Help Center","groups.xxxx.com","https://xxxxx.service-now.com/sp","helpcenter","help.xxxx.com"} & "*"),"True","False")

        For example, I have this forumula in another column, and tried to use a similar filter condition with the other command, but can't get it to work.
        =IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(T2,Filter!$A$2:$A$100,1,FALSE)), "NO","Collaboration")

        Is there a way to use countif with wild card and referring to a list of values on another tab?

        Thanks again!

        1. I think I just got it! Thanks so much:

          =IF(OR(COUNTIF(AS2:AU2,"*" & Table1[Portals] & "*")),"Out of Scope","False")

  40. I have a rather large table and I'm trying to highlight rows that meet multiple criteria. Yes I'm a novice. In column CY, each cell has multiple words (for instance: Fire Damage, Split Top, Decayed Top); in column Q each cell has a date (year only). I'm trying to pinpoint and highlight the rows that contain the words "Split Top" in column CY and a date of 1995 or higher in column Q. Every formula I've tried highlight the rows if they're carrying one or the other, or both. For reference, I've highlighted the entire table and went to conditional formatting and entered the following:
    =countifs(($CY2,"*Split Top*")+($Q2>1995))
    Can you help?

    1. Got it! I never put the comma between Q2 and the parenthesis. Thanks!

      =COUNTIFS($CY2,"*Split Top*",$Q2,">1994")

  41. ok, so im trying to figure out how to add 2nd variable onto my formula to count them both. but i cant get anything to work.

    =COUNTIFS(DUE!A:A,"DLA",DUE!C:C,"250",DUE!N:N,"V")

    now this currently works, but i also want to add Y that is also in the same column as "V"

    any help would be greatly appreciated

  42. Create a formula that displays the coupon amount for each customer based on department. Remember! The standards of professionalism require that you DO NOT include numbers in formulas if the numbers might change in the future. These coupons will change in the future.

    Electronics—$25 coupon.
    Toys—$20 coupon.
    Sports—$15 coupon.
    Shoes—$10 coupon.
    Every other department—$5 coupon.

    1. Hello!
      I’m sorry but your task is not entirely clear to me. Could you please describe it in more detail? What result do you want to get? Give an example of the source data and the expected result.
      Thank you!

  43. Status Group Name
    A B C
    1 Solved Everglow Mike

    2 Closed GreenDot Jess

    3 Pending Pledis Mike

    4 Closed Pledis Gus

    5 Solved Greendot Jess

    6 Solved Greendot Charlie

    7 Pending Everglow Gus

    I wanna count how many Gus, Jess, Mike has a Solved or Closed Status from Greendot in to one cell. when i have the formula below the error #spill! shows..

    =COUNTIFS(C:C, {"Gus","Jess,"Mike"}, B:B, "Greendot", A:A, "Solved")+COUNTIFS(C:C, {"Gus","Jess","Mike"}, B:B, "Greendot", A:A, "Closed")

    please help i'm very confused

    1. i figured out the formula

      =COUNTIFS(C:C, "Gus", B:B, Greendot, A:A, "Solved")+COUNTIFS(C:C, "Gus", B:B, Greendot, A:A, "Closed")+COUNTIFS(C:C, "Jess", B:B, Greendot, A:A, "Solved")+COUNTIFS(C:C, "Jess", B:B, Greendot, A:A, "Closed")+COUNTIFS(C:C, "Mike", B:B, Greendot, A:A, "Solved")+COUNTIFS(C:C, "Mike", B:B, Greendot, A:A, "Closed")

      but honestly is there no way to shorten this formula?

      1. Hi!

        The formula below will do the trick for you:

        =SUM(COUNTIFS(C:C, {"Gus","Mike","Jess"}, B:B, "Greendot", A:A, {"Solved";"Closed"}))

        I hope I answered your question.

  44. I need a formula to count if columns A, B, C, OR D have "*apples*" AND column E is not blank.

    1. Hello!
      If I got you right, the formula below will help you with your task:

      =SUM((ISNUMBER(SEARCH("apples",A1:A10,1))+ISNUMBER(SEARCH("apples",B1:B10,1))+ISNUMBER(SEARCH("apples",C1:C10,1))+ISNUMBER(SEARCH("apples",D1:D10,1)))*NOT(ISBLANK(E1:E10)))

      I hope my advice will help you solve your task.

  45. Hi, I doing a sale excel were I need to count all the same product multiply by the amount of order.

    Order product
    2. Apple
    3. Orange
    1 apple

    Were apple should be 3 and orange will be 3.

  46. Hi, I doing a sale excel were I need to count all the same product multiply by the amount of order.

    Order product
    2. Apple
    3. Orange
    1 apple

    Were apple should be 3

  47. Hi,

    Thanks for this article. My problem now is it doesn’t count when one cell has the same text, especially two names of the same person.

    The text goes like this:

    G2:G10 = James
    G11:G20 = James Pattinson

    Formula:

    =(COUNTIFS(F:F, $K$5, G:G,{"James", "James Pattinson"},D:D,"Done"))

    The formula refuses to count cells that have the same first keyword. Please advise on how to solve this.

    Paul

    1. Hello!
      I believe the following formula will help you solve your task:

      =SUM(COUNTIFS(F:F, $K$5, G:G,{“James”, “James Pattinson”},D:D,”Done”))

      or

      =COUNTIFS(F:F, $K$5, G:G,“James”&"*",D:D,”Done”)

      I hope my advice will help you solve your task.

  48. Hello Alexander,

    Works like a charm :D
    Thank you very much for your help.

    Kind regards,
    Mitchell

  49. Hello,

    In the example "How to use COUNTIFS with wildcard characters"

    How would I count the number of "Mike" in column B when the date in C equals the date in D?

    Kind regards,
    Mitchell

    1. Hello!
      Please try the following formula:

      =SUMPRODUCT((B2:B10="Mike")*(--(C2:C10=D2:D10)))

      Hope this is what you need.

      1. Hello Alexander,

        Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately I don't get the desired result, but a "value not available error".

        So what I'm trying to do:
        On sheet 1 I have information on deliveries. (suppliers (column N), promise dates(column G), actual delivery dates(column H), and many more)

        On sheet 2 I have listed all suppliers(column A) and added a column(B) with a formula which counts the number of times a supplier made a delivery =COUNTIF(Sheet1!$A$2:$P$268;A2)
        Now I want to add a column(C) which only counts the times this supplier actually delivered on the promise date.(Sheet 1, G=H)

        With your help I tried below formula, which returns a "value not available error".

        =SUMPRODUCT((Sheet1!$A$2:$N$268="A2")*(--((Sheet1!$G$2:$G$268:Sheet1!$H$2:$H$268))))

        Based on above information, is there a formula which can calculate this without adding columns to sheet 1?

        Kind regards,
        Mitchell

        1. Hello!
          I wrote this formula based on the description you provided in your original comment. Please note that if you’d provided me with the precise and detailed description of your task from the very beginning, I’d have created a different formula that would have worked for your case.

          =SUMPRODUCT((Sheet1!$N$2:$N$268=A2)*(--(Sheet1!$G$2:$G$268=Sheet1!$H$2:$H$268)))

          I hope this will help

  50. Thanks, Svetlana!
    A lifesaver, as usual.

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