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Counting with multiple matching criteria
I was thinking that SUMPRODUCT, being an array-processing function, would
have imposed the array processing on the elements in the formula. -- Rick (MVP - Excel) "T. Valko" wrote in message ... =SUM(--(G$1:G$100=TRANSPOSE(J1:J4))) I found it interesting that using SUMPRODUCT instead of SUM did not work correctly unless you array-entered it. TRANSPOSE requires array entry. -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "Rick Rothstein" wrote in message ... I'm assuming that there are more entry possibilities than the four you listed and that she wants to count only those four items from among all the possible entries (otherwise a simple COUNTA function call would work). Using the concept Shane posted, but modifying it for the search items to be listed in a column (J1:J4 in my formula) rather than a row (W1:Z1 in Shane's formula), this array-entered formula should work... =SUM(--(G$1:G$100=TRANSPOSE(J1:J4))) I found it interesting that using SUMPRODUCT instead of SUM did not work correctly unless you array-entered it. -- Rick (MVP - Excel) "Gary''s Student" wrote in message ... A colleague came to me yesterday and complained about the length of formulas. She needs to count occurrences of values in a table that meet any of several criteria. The table is pure text with no blanks. Her formula was something like: =COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"open")+COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"pendin g review")+COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"review complete")+COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"assigned") I pointed out that she did not need repeated COUNTIF()'s and to use: =SUM(COUNTIF(G7:G3147,{"open","pending review","review complete","assigned"})) She was satisfied, but returned this morning and wanted to know if the criteria could be completely removed from the formula and stored in a table. I put the match values in Z1 thru Z4 and tried: =SUM(COUNTIF(G7:G3147,Z1:Z4)) but this returns zero. Any suggestions for putting the criteria in a little table and referring to that table?? -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200858 |
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Counting with multiple matching criteria
Thanks Rick
-- Gary''s Student - gsnu200858 "Rick Rothstein" wrote: I'm assuming that there are more entry possibilities than the four you listed and that she wants to count only those four items from among all the possible entries (otherwise a simple COUNTA function call would work). Using the concept Shane posted, but modifying it for the search items to be listed in a column (J1:J4 in my formula) rather than a row (W1:Z1 in Shane's formula), this array-entered formula should work... =SUM(--(G$1:G$100=TRANSPOSE(J1:J4))) I found it interesting that using SUMPRODUCT instead of SUM did not work correctly unless you array-entered it. -- Rick (MVP - Excel) "Gary''s Student" wrote in message ... A colleague came to me yesterday and complained about the length of formulas. She needs to count occurrences of values in a table that meet any of several criteria. The table is pure text with no blanks. Her formula was something like: =COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"open")+COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"pendin g review")+COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"review complete")+COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"assigned") I pointed out that she did not need repeated COUNTIF()’s and to use: =SUM(COUNTIF(G7:G3147,{"open","pending review","review complete","assigned"})) She was satisfied, but returned this morning and wanted to know if the criteria could be completely removed from the formula and stored in a table. I put the match values in Z1 thru Z4 and tried: =SUM(COUNTIF(G7:G3147,Z1:Z4)) but this returns zero. Any suggestions for putting the criteria in a little table and referring to that table?? -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200858 |
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Counting with multiple matching criteria
Thanks Biff
-- Gary''s Student - gsnu200858 "T. Valko" wrote: Listed in order of efficiency: =COUNTIF(A:A,B1)+COUNTIF(A:A,C1)+COUNTIF(A:A,D1)+C OUNTIF(A:A,E1) =SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIF(A:A,B1:E1)) =SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(MATCH(A1:A3500,B1:E1,0)))) =SUM(--(A1:A3500=TRANSPOSE(B1:B4))) =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A3500=B1:E1)) -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "Gary''s Student" wrote in message ... A colleague came to me yesterday and complained about the length of formulas. She needs to count occurrences of values in a table that meet any of several criteria. The table is pure text with no blanks. Her formula was something like: =COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"open")+COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"pendin g review")+COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"review complete")+COUNTIF(G7:G3147,"assigned") I pointed out that she did not need repeated COUNTIF()'s and to use: =SUM(COUNTIF(G7:G3147,{"open","pending review","review complete","assigned"})) She was satisfied, but returned this morning and wanted to know if the criteria could be completely removed from the formula and stored in a table. I put the match values in Z1 thru Z4 and tried: =SUM(COUNTIF(G7:G3147,Z1:Z4)) but this returns zero. Any suggestions for putting the criteria in a little table and referring to that table?? -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200858 |
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