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Old December 27th, 2005, 07:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.newusers
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I have data of non-numerical in nature that I want to sort get totals. How
do I do this and report the results?
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=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"string")


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

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I have data of non-numerical in nature that I want to sort get totals. How
do I do this and report the results?

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Old December 27th, 2005, 10:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.newusers
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Use COUNTIF:


If column A has:

dog
dog
cat
cat
cat
fish
fish

then countif(A1:A7,"dog") will give 2, etc.
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I have data of non-numerical in nature that I want to sort get totals. How
do I do this and report the results?

 




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