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. Excellent Example

  2. I am trying to count the new number of impacted individuals for today (prefer, workdays), I also have a number of other criteria. This is the current formula I use to use to count the total number =COUNTIFS(AN2,"=*?*",P2,"=No",D2,"=Reserve"). I would like a way to count only the new ones added today. I have a entry date column in J2.

    Thanks in advance

    1. Hello!
      Unfortunately, without seeing your data it hard to give you advice.
      If I understand your task correctly, the following formula should work for you:

      =COUNTIFS(AN:AN,”=*?*”,P:P,”=No”,D:D,”=Reserve”,J:J,TODAY())

  3. In a range, is there any formula where i can pick

    how many 1s, how many 2s, how many 3s etc... in one step

  4. Hello,
    I am in need of assistance locating the right formula for my workbook.
    in sheet1-I have a list of names, with a current fourmula " =COUNTIF('Element Core'!A2:A500,'Agent Assignment'!D41)" to capture how much data from each tab they are assigned too.
    In sheet2-Shows the actual amount of cells each agent has been assigned to in column A, i would like to somehow divide the completed task in column B of sheet 2 to the total number they have been assigned to in sheet 1.
    example
    agent Name - # of cells Assigned too(from sheet 2)
    Tom Jerry - 40
    I would like to divide 40 by what the agent has already completed in sheet2 on column B.

    Thank you.

    1. Hello!
      If I understand correctly, then you just need to divide the values from column A by the values from column B. I suppose that the number of completed tasks can be calculated with approximately the same formula as the number of assigned tasks. But there is no information in your question about this.
      Please describe your problem in more detail. It’ll help me understand it better and find a solution for you.

  5. Hi Alexander
    Thanks - that works perfectly!
    Adam

  6. Hello
    I have a table of data, on column of which is either ***, ** or * depending on the prioritisation of that row. If I now want to do a countifs function, how would I insert a condition that a row has *** for that specific criteria? I tried using a tilde, " " but cant get it right
    Thanks!

    Adam

    1. Hello Adam!
      To count the number of "***" values, add a tilde before each *

      =COUNTIFS(K1:K40,"~*~*~*")

      I hope it’ll be helpful.

  7. Hi,
    Can you provide your help regarding a specific formula:
    I want to do a calculation in which I want to exclude character which lies in a sequence.
    For example. I have 10 numbers: 1, 3, 5, 10, 2000, 2001, 2002, 3052, 3053, 3054.
    Now, I want to count 1 and ignore 3, 5, 10 mean to ignore the up to 10 number in consective orders. Similiartly I want to count just 2001 and 3052 and want to ignore other number from counting. I have to do this calculation in up to 100K.
    If you provide your help I will be very thankful.
    Best
    Abdullah

  8. Hi
    I have a data set where in row 2 I have headings of "Squad", "Mins", "Goals", "Assists" and these repeat several times across the row. I'm trying to find a formula which counts the number cells under any of the "Mins" columns which are greater than 0, but only when the number in the "Squad" column is greater than 11.
    I can do a simple count of the first part (=COUNTIFS($N$2:$KG$2,"Mins",N41:KG41,">0") however I am unsure how to add the second part to only count this IF $N$2:$KG$2,"Squad",N41:KG41,">11".

    Have you got any thoughts about how I can add this IF element? I have tried a few combinations but the best i get is a #VALUE! error. Any help much appreciated.

  9. Hi,

    I have two columns with huge number of data in it. Coulmn A has the list of applications and Column has the list of servers. Each application hits different servers . Want to know on the count of application per server using a formula.

  10. My queson is to display the last entered number position and that will automatically change the value in another cell.
    If suppose, in a column Sr.No. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 now the last no. is 7 if I enter 8,9,10,...the another which is having the reference will catch the latest entry inthis case 10 and update his cell value.

  11. Hi,

    I want to count how many times the value = "yes" in column F on data sheet.

    this is fine, however, I want this to be date dependent criteria.

    Count how many times "yes" appears within a date range specified on reporting sheet, G8 (start date) & J8 (end date).

    The corresponding date for "Yes" column is in "g3" on the data sheet.

    I currently have:
    COUNTIFS(Data!F3:F68, "Yes") + COUNTIFS(Data!G3:G61,">="&Reporting!G8,Data!G3:G61,"<="&Reporting!J8)

    But this is counting how many times "yes" appears AND how many times the date appears which is duplicating my data.

    Thank you, Hope that makes sense!

  12. Hi,I'm trying to use countifs statement to add 3 certain elements of a table if all are present.

    My formula is =COUNTIFS(O24:O31,U24,P24:P31,AA36,J24:J30,AA36)

    O23:O31 holds Yes/No

    P24:P31 holds a number value

    J24:J30 holds a number value

    I'm happy with the ranges and the criteria are set values.

    The formula works if you have any two elements i.e O24:O31 and J24:J30 or J24:J30 and P24:P30 however once i add the third element it does work.

    any help would be appreciated

  13. Hi, how to add any number to existing countif function. By automatically like countif(c1:g1,c82+2)

  14. Ive got the syntax working for a single column

    =COUNTIFS($C:$C,"*Mon*" & "*Jan*",$D:$D,1)

    which gives me Mon, Jan, Employee 1

    now I want to do
    =COUNTIFS($C:$C,"*Mon*" & "*Jan*",

    Mon, Jan, employee 2

    $D:$E,1)

    so Im now looking in two columns D:E for employee 2, but the syntax wont work. Any help please

    1. Hello Susan!
      You can use the COUNTIFS function. But уach additional range must have the same number of rows and columns as the criteria_range1 argument. The ranges do not have to be adjacent to each other. Please read the above article carefully.

  15. Hi Could you please help me on how to count specific letter from all ODD column or even column?

    1. Hello!
      I’m sorry but your task is not entirely clear to me. 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. Thank you.

  16. please i have data set like
    84
    9
    65
    85
    41
    33
    20
    20
    86
    25
    40
    45
    36
    82
    2
    18
    36
    66
    19
    51
    63
    71
    35
    31
    42
    all i want to do is to get count for the first numbers only thanks!

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

      =SUM(--LEFT(A1:A20,1))

      I hope this will help

  17. Hi
    I'm trying to set up spreadsheet for my darts team that records players' stats.I record their averages, high score and number of scores between set criteria, (ie, total number of scores below 19, 20-39, 40-59, etc.)
    I need a formula to reference the player with their scores, within three or more games, so I don't have to do each separately
    I hope this makes sense?
    Best regards
    John

    1. Hello John!
      I’m sorry but your task is not entirely clear to me.
      Please describe your problem in more detail. Include an example of the source data and the result you want to get. It’ll help me understand your request better and find a solution for you. Thank you.

  18. Hi, I have a spreadsheet which has multiple dates in it, as well as multiple locations. It is for commencement of employees and tracking of probations.
    There is a column for locations, as well as a column for programmed start date, actual start date, programmed completion date and actual completion date. I am tracking to identify one month late and three months late for both start and finish for all four locations. The current formula I am trying is: =COUNTIFS(Table4[OPU],"Cq",Table4[Probation Start Due Date],(DAYS(Table4[Probation Start Due Date],Table4[Probation Commenced]>30))), however it is not identifying any data. I would really appreciate some help.. cheers, Jo

    1. Hello!
      I’m sorry but your task is not entirely clear to me. Could you please describe it in more detail? What data do you calculate in your COUNTIFS formula? Give examples. Thank you!

  19. Hi,
    I need to use the countifs function where the reference range are values extracted through a formula. I do not want to change the reference value from formula to values. Could you help!

    Thanks in advance!

    1. Hello!
      I’m sorry but your task is not entirely clear to me. 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. Thank you.

  20. Hi. I have a query.
    I want to count how many times a certain thing was came among 2 columns, with two conditions.
    Eg.
    A= aa as ad af
    B= 12 21 22 13
    C= Dates day wise

    I wanna count how many times AS was with 12 condition at a certain date from C.....

    Anyone can help?

    1. Hello!
      I hope you have studied the recommendations in the above tutorial. Please specify detailed and accurate what you were trying to find, what formula you used and what problem or error occurred. It’ll help me understand the problem you faced better and help you.

  21. Hi,
    I'm doing a race night and want to write the names of all the people who have placed a bet in one cell. In another column I then want to count number of the names in the first cell.
    Eg. (Tom,Dick,Harry) count = 3
    Is there a formula that could do this please?

    1. Hello
      If the names in the cell are separated by commas, then the count of names can be calculated using the formula -

      =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",""))+1

      I hope it’ll be helpful.

  22. Hi,

    I have some problem getting the formula for my excel file. it took me to much time to solve it even now i cant figure it out. i dont have really much knowledge on excel though. would you mind helping me to create a formula to condense all equal date with another criteria.Example columnA(Dates) columnB(text).To make it more clearer. All May 5,2020 in column A and technical in column B will be count as one.

  23. I am trying count the number of assets in a given location within a given range of operating hours. I have successfully used "=countifs($F:$F,"EVT",$G:$G,",9999.9"). My problem is determining the formula for counting the number of assets with operating hours between 10000 and 19999.9 hours. Thanks.

    1. Hello!
      I’m sorry but your task is not entirely clear to me.
      Your formula cannot work. There may have been an error copying it. Please let me know in more detail 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. Thank you.

  24. I need a formula for counting the number of columns in a row with values greater than 5.
    Ex. Out of Column B , D , G - B1 & G1 has the value greater than 5, so I need to get count as 2.. How is it possible.

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

      =SUM(IF(COUNTIF(B:B," > 5")>0,1,0),IF(COUNTIF(D:D," > 5")>0,1,0),IF(COUNTIF(G:G," > 5")>0,1,0))

      I hope this will help, otherwise please do not hesitate to contact me anytime.

  25. Hello , I'm trying to count a name that is in another column with certain date range and count only the names that have a text in another column , could you please help with what formula to use.

    1. Hello Juan Romo!
      I’m sorry but your task is not entirely clear to me.
      For me to be able to help you better, please describe your task in more detail. Please let me know in more detail what you were trying to find. It’ll help me understand it better and find a solution for you. Thank you.

  26. Hi!!
    Thank you so much for your help. I am trying to do a COUNTIFS with multiple criteria. I tried using SUM(COUNTIFS and it did work in the beg but now I need to add more criteria. What I am pretty much trying to do is to put the following formula into ONE - the first part searches for MPS[Warehouse] "AAA" and the second for "BBB".
    =SUM(COUNTIFS(MPS[Work Ticket Status], {"NEW","MRD","PRD","PIC","PUR"}, MPS[Warehouse], {"AAA"}, MPS[NEW Production Start Date], ">=5/1/2020", MPS[NEW Production Start Date], "<"&TODAY(),MPS[NEW Production Start Date], "=5/1/2020", MPS[NEW Production Start Date], "<"&TODAY(),MPS[NEW Production Start Date], "<=5/30/2020"))

    - BECAUSE the next thing I need to do is to use this formula to count the ones that are NOT "AAA" or "BBB" and that is the real problem begin! (In fact I have more than just 2 warehouses, this was just an example).

    1. Hello Francesca!
      You can use something like this formula.

      =SUM(COUNTIFS(A19:A25,{"NEW","MPD","PRD","PIC","PUR"}, B19:B25,{"AAA","BBB"}, C19:C25,">=5/1/2020", C19:C25,"<"&TODAY(), C19:C25,"<=5/30/2020"))

      There is an error in your formula.
      Conditions
      MPS [NEW Production Start Date], “> = 5/1/2020”
      and
      MPS [NEW Production Start Date], "= 5/1/2020”
      contradict each other.
      It will be executed only
      MPS [NEW Production Start Date], "= 5/1/2020”.
      Condition
      MPS [NEW Production Start Date], “<" & TODAY ()
      repeated twice.

      I hope this will help, otherwise please do not hesitate to contact me anytime.

      1. 1) the only thing I see differently would be the range? Because my problem is that I do not have a specific range, the query is large and I need to use the entire column as new items might be added. and it was a typo, it was supposed to be >5/31 thanks for the letting me know. 2)What I am having trouble is with the multiple item types {"NEW", "PUR", "PIC" etc}. The formula is not reading all of them, I guess a need a OR? 3)And In case I DO NOT want those warehouses, the "" is not working for me.

        THANK YOU!!!

        1. Hello Francesca!
          If you want to use the entire column, just change the link to A: A. But the speed of calculations will decrease significantly.
          The COUNTIFS function cannot use AND or OR operators as arguments.
          If the formula does not consider any element in your table, check how it is written. There may be spaces or some other characters.
          Indicate for comparison only the values that are necessary.

  27. Hi,
    I am trying to count, for example the number of occurrences of a particular text , say "SP", in a row from column c to column dd - OK so far. But now I want to only count the occurrences in the row where the date in column A = today(). The table has multiple (consecutive) dates in column A. Is it possible to do this with a formula? Maybe countif with offset and match somehow? Thanks for looking.

    1. Hello Steve!
      Use the paragraph in this guide above "Count cells with multiple criteria (AND logic)". One of the conditions is A1 = TODAY ()

      1. Alexander, Thanks for your help.
        I am trying to put a formula in a single cell which will, each day, count up occurrences of eg. "Y" and show the total - not once per row, but just a single cell, showing just the current days completeness (="Y"). I have tried =COUNTIFS($A$1:$A$21, "="& "Today()",$C$1:$N$21, "="& "Y") but this gives #Value! as result. Any further ideas? Cheers. Sample data follows:

        04-May EL EL EL EL EL EL
        05-May SJ Y SJ Y SJ Y SJ Y SJ Y SJ Y
        06-May EL y EL y EL y EL y EL y EL y
        07-May LR y LR y LR y LR y LR y LR y
        08-May SJ Y SJ Y SJ Y SJ Y SJ Y SJ Y
        09-May LR Y LR Y LR Y LR Y LR Y LR Y
        10-May EL Y EL Y EL Y EL Y EL Y EL Y
        11-May SJ SJ SJ SJ SJ SJ
        12-May LR LR LR LR LR LR
        13-May EL EL EL EL EL EL
        14-May SJ SJ SJ SJ SJ SJ
        15-May LR LR LR LR LR LR
        16-May EL EL EL EL EL EL
        17-May SJ SJ SJ SJ SJ SJ
        18-May LR LR LR LR LR LR
        19-May EL EL EL EL EL EL
        20-May SJ SJ SJ SJ SJ SJ
        21-May LR LR LR LR LR LR

        1. Hello Steve!
          The data ranges that you use in the COUNTIFS function must be the same in size. That is, if the first is 1 column, then the second is also 1 column. And you have a second range - 12 columns.
          Please try the following formula:

          =SUMPRODUCT(--(($A$1:$A$21)=TODAY()), (C1:C21="Y")+(D1:D21="Y")+(E1:E21="Y"))

          Add it yourself to column N.
          I hope it’ll be helpful.

        2. Cracked it. Thanks for your inspiration Alexander. Here is what I used …
          =COUNTIF(INDIRECT("C" & 3+MATCH(TODAY(),A4:A31)):INDIRECT("DD" & 3+MATCH(TODAY(),A4:A31)),"Y")

  28. Hi there,
    I am trying to combine these formulas so that both criteria must be true for it to be counted however as my ranges are different sizes this is problematic, is there a way to combine these?

    =COUNTIF('Volunteer Call Handler Form APRIL'!Q:V,"XXXXXXX - recent") COUNTIF('Volunteer Call Handler Form APRIL'!G:G,"Inbound"))

    Thanks, Tilly

    1. Hello Tilly!
      If both conditions must be fulfilled, unfortunately, the sizes of the ranges for each of them must be the same.

  29. Hi,
    Please can you help!
    I am creating a reporting sheet in excel for different information from throughout the workbook.
    I would like to create a formula that can tell me how many times the word "Late" appeared within in a month. The data will be pulled from another sheet to the reporting sheet.
    My date column is B date 24/04/2020 and Late column is F.
    Thank you for any advice.

    1. Hi Rachel,
      You may use the array function below to count the number of values on several sheets:

      =SUM(IFERROR(COUNTIFS(INDIRECT("'"&$E$2:$E$32&"'!F:F"),A3, INDIRECT("'"&$E$2:$E$32&"'!B:B")," >="&DATE(YEAR(A4),MONTH(A4),1), INDIRECT("'"&$E$2:$E$32&"'!B:B")," <="&EOMONTH(A4,0)),0))

      Where A3 is the criterion to search values by (in your case, it is Late);

      F:F is the searching range on each sheet;

      A4 states for the date you conduct the search by. Note! The dates you apply the formula to should be of the same month as the one in A4;

      B:B is the dates range on each sheet;

      $E$2:$E$32 - the list of the sheets to make the search in.

      Since the formula above is the array function, please don't forget to use the Cthr+Shift+Enter combination to apply it.
      Hope it'll help you with your task.

  30. I have Count like COUNTIF((C4,F4,I4,L4),">0"), result are not find.
    please help.

    1. Hello Ashok,
      Please try the following formula:
      =COUNTIF(C4,">0")+COUNTIF(F4,">0")+COUNTIF(I4,">0")+COUNTIF(L4,">0")
      Range can only be contiguous cells.

  31. I have a spreadsheet that has three columns I am working with...Column C that has Dates Sampled, Column H that has Quantity, and Column K that has Aggregate type. I need to have a formula that will give the Quantity of X aggregates for each quarter by using the dates sampled to determine the quarters. Is this something I will be able to do with the CountIf function? TIA

    1. Hello Katelyn!
      If I understand your task correctly, please try the following formula:

      =COUNTIFS(C2:C32,">="&DATE(2020,1,1),C2:C32,"<"&DATE(2020,4,1),K2:K32,"AAA")

      I hope this will help, otherwise please do not hesitate to contact me anytime.

  32. Hi. I have created an attendance spreadsheet with a drop down list allowing multiple selections of: A, B, C, D, E, NP. If NP is selected nothing needs to happen as the client was Not Present. The other options will demonstrate what activities the clients participated in if they did attend A, E, D or A, B, C, etc. I need another cell to calculate all dates client attended and has choices from A-E as 2.
    Ex: on 12/29 the client attended and participated in 3 activities, on 12/30 client participated in 1 and 12/31 client participated in 2. I need each of these cells to equate to 2- so the total should be 6 units. It should not matter what activates the client is participating in, but if they attend that should equal 2 units for the day. I need this to be able to equate no matter what order the drop down items are placed.
    So with this example the total should be 6
    12/28 12/29 12/30 12/31 TOTAL
    B,D,E D B,C 4

    1. Sorry that example did not come through formatted.

  33. Salary Grade Range
    A 0-300,000
    B 300,001-400,000
    C 400,001-800,000
    D 800,001-1,000,000
    E Above 1,000,000

    get the salary range

    1. Hello!
      If I understand your task correctly, you need to use an approximate search VLOOKUP.
      Write down all income rates in one column, for example:
      0
      300000
      400000
      500000
      ......
      In the second column B, indicate the name of the range A, B, C, D ...
      If salary is indicated in cell D1, this formula will return the name of the range

      = VLOOKUP (D1, A1: B10,2,1)

      You can learn more about approximate match in VLOOKUP in this article on our blog.
      Hope you’ll find this information helpful.

  34. how i count the how many cities particular sales person doing the sales in the particular month (For Eg. Sales man "A" do the sales in the month of "Jan" how many cities covered and how many customers billed in the month of jan and feb, etc)

    columns are in the worksheets are below,
    Month City Sales Employee Name Invoice Number Invoice Date party Name productName Qty Rate Sales Value
    kindly help

    1. Hello Dhanapal!
      The easiest and most correct way to get an answer to your questions is to use a pivot table. Our blog has many articles about this. I recommend here and here.

      I hope it’ll be helpful.

      1. DEAR SIR,
        thank u for your reply. Pivot i know, it is bigger file, so it takes more space and more time for execution, in case formula is there its come to an consolidated sheet easily. thats why i need a formula.

  35. Here is my formula. I am trying to count if column K, D, and E meets these criteria. Column K must have Winston. Column D must have Win7 to Win10. Column E has several criteria.
    =SUM(COUNTIFS(K:K,"WINSTON",D:D,"Win7 to Win10",E:E,{"Deferred","Discovered",Discovered by Local IS","Failed 10 Push","Local ITS Support","Not Delivered","Not Found","Special Config on Order"}))

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

      =SUMPRODUCT(--(D1:D10="Win7 to Win10"), --(K1:K10="WINSTON"), IFERROR(MATCH(E1:E10,{"Deferred";"Discovered";"Discovered by Local IS"},0),0))

      I hope this will help, otherwise please do not hesitate to contact me anytime.

  36. Hi,

    I am attempting to track the frequency that sales person makes calls in a selected date range. The formula is adding up the number of times it says Matt Elkin as well as the number of time any of those dates were mentioned. I want it to count those dates only if it says Matt Elkin.

    G2/F2 - start and end dates

    =COUNTIFS(Database!M2:M9359, "Matt Elkin") + COUNTIFS(Database!G2:G10000,">="&G2,Database!G2:G10000,"<="&F2)

    1. Thanks Jason, got solve my problem checking your comment! :)

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

      =SUMPRODUCT(--(Database!G2:G10000>=$G$2), --(Database!G2:G10000>=$F$2), --(Database!M2:M9359="Matt Elkin"))

      Hope this is what you need.

  37. Thank you. This is THE tutorial on using AND and/or OR commands with Countifs.

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

  38. I Want to numeric precedence with multiple occurrences of String in Specified Range
    Like
    A1 Amir
    A2 Amir
    A3 Amir

    Result Will
    A1 Amir1
    A2 Amir2
    A3 Amir3

    can you help me on this its urgent

  39. Thanks!

  40. R80874 17/03/2020 CREDIT ABDULLA PHARMACY 1 294.91 0.00 0.00 294.91
    R80873 17/03/2020 CREDIT AHLAN PHARMACY(AJN) 2 424.34 0.00 0.00 424.34
    R80872 17/03/2020 CREDIT AL HAYER PHARMACY 3 481.50 0.00 0.00 481.50
    R80912 17/03/2020 CREDIT AL KHALEEJ PHARMACY 4 379.51 0.00 0.00 379.51
    R80865 17/03/2020 CREDIT CASH CUSTOMER 5 698.16 0.00 0.00 698.16
    R80903 17/03/2020 CREDIT CASH CUSTOMER 6 675.00 0.00 0.00 675.00
    R80875 17/03/2020 CREDIT CONCORD DRUG STORE 7 6230.00 0.00 0.00 6230.00
    R80880 17/03/2020 CREDIT CONCORD DRUG STORE 7 319.00 0.00 0.00 319.00
    R80911 17/03/2020 CREDIT GHANTHOOT PHARMACY 8 250.06 0.00 0.00 250.06
    R80886 17/03/2020 CREDIT LEAH PHARMACY 9 569.89 0.00 0.00 569.89
    R80907 17/03/2020 CREDIT LEAH PHARMACY 9 181.05 0.00 0.00 181.05
    R80910 17/03/2020 CREDIT UM GHAFA PHARMACY 10 517.54 0.00 0.00 517.54
    11020.96

    I NEED THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CUSTOMER AND COUNT CASH AS SINGLE
    CUSTOMER
    HERE 2 CASH CUSTOMERs COUNT IT AS 2 CUSTOMERs

  41. Hi There,
    I'm looking for a formula that count the different between specific cells. I have 100 cells contains reading and I want to count if different for instant between 6th cell and 1st cell is more than 10, similarly I want to do it for cell 24th and 48th, 72nd and 96th,....

    thanks,

  42. I have a spreadsheet where cells contain answers to a multi-response question. Cells can contain any combination of responses from A - J. I need a way to count the number of cells that contain (for example) A, C, or E. If a cell contains more than one of these, I don't want it to be counted twice. For example:

    Cell 1: A, B, D
    Cell 2: A, C, E
    Cell 3: B, D, E
    Cell 4: B, D, G, J

    The total count of cells that contain A, C, OR E is 3. Using the OR formula above, we would get a total of 5, as the count for A is 2, the count for C is 1, and the count for E is 2. Is there any way to do this?

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

      =SUM(COUNTIFS(A1:A16,{"*A*";"*C*";"*E*"}))-SUM(COUNTIFS(A1:A16,{"*A*C*";"*C*E*";"*A*E*"}))

      This is an array formula and it needs to be entered via Ctrl + Shift + Enter, not just Enter.

  43. Hello,
    I need to get the count based on specific criteria from two tables.
    the header will be
    emp name, Batch number. This will be the master base data. From this, I need to make an overview that shows a specific batch count for each employee.

    The emp name will be repeated.

  44. Hi,
    I'm using countifs and need to count the data date wise but the result is coming 0 everytime. For the same I have used 2 different ways, one using today() and another by inserting required date but the outcome is same.

  45. I am trying to figure out a countifs formula inorder to determine how many scores are above 8 during the year 2020.
    Column 1 Column 2
    2/21/2020 14
    1/9/2020 7.2
    11/9/2019 9.5
    2/20/2019 6.0

    Which would be only 1.
    Thank you in advance. :)

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

      =SUM(COUNTIFS(A2:A5,">=1/1/2020",A2:A5,"<1/1/2021",B2:B5,">8"))

  46. Am having a problem with some problem and am asking of help.
    We want customers to receive a coupon based on the department they purchased from.
    Coupon amounts by department:
    Electronics—$25 coupon.
    Toys—$20 coupon.
    Sports—$15 coupon.
    Shoes—$10 coupon.
    Every other department—$5 coupon.
    Create a column named “Coupon.”
    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.
    Create a column named “Promotion.”
    Create a formula to enter $10 if the customer purchased books or shoes.
    If you forgot how to create “OR” functions inside.
    When a customer calls, we want our staff to quickly find the customer and information. Create a dashboard.
    Create a customer drop down list using data validation.
    Below the list displays the appropriate corresponding information: email, gender, new sales, department, coupon, and promotion.

  47. Kindly share the formula for below,
    Monthly profit share to be distributed based on attendance. Kindly advise

  48. assalam o alaikum
    i want to count qty how many cell of colum 1 date empty of secound column
    example
    column 1 column
    17-01-2020
    17-01-2020
    18-01-2020 245
    18-01-2020
    18-01-2020 254
    now how we use formula 17 -01-2020 02 cell is empty and 18-01-2020 is 02

    1. =COUNTBLANK(select the range of the second column)

  49. I'm trying to figure out what a COUNTIF formula means on a sheet I didn't create. The Range is text rather than specifying a cell range and I can't figure out what data that range is connected to. The formula is =COUNTIF(Round 2,AC$4) and I can't figure out what "Round_2" connects to. There is another sheet within workbook with a cell named "Round 2" but the data there doesn't seem to be applying to this formula.

  50. Hi!

    I'm working on compiling data into three different scenarios. I need to do the following:
    1) identify if the institutions have the same ID
    2) if they have the same ID, then I need to identify if they have 1 of 3 criteria, 2 of 3 criteria, or 3 of 3 criteria

    I tried using IF & COUNTIF but it's not working the way I intended

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