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Old June 4th, 2010, 05:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
John
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Default Counting question

I get the following message in the cell "The formula contains unrecognized
text"
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John


"steve" wrote:

=COUNTIFS(A:A,"Y",B:B,"A")

Regards
Steve

"John" wrote in message
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In column A I have set of characters that are entered into the rows below
(i.e. Y, N, MRO) in column B I have another set of characters that are
entered into the rows below (i.e. A, E, on so on). I want to count the
instances when the rows in Column A contain a Y and the rows in column B
contain an A. Is there an simple formula for doing this? Any help will
be
appreciated.
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John



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