Need help with Excel 2010

muncybob

I have a column that will contain either an x, an x with a strike through or the cell will be blank. I want to count the number of cells only with an x.....exclude blanks and strike throughs. HELP!

OleBoot

Go to Formulas tab, then Insert Function button on left, then select Countif.



COUNTIF function

This article describes the formula syntax and usage of the COUNTIFfunction in Microsoft Excel.

Description

The COUNTIF function counts the number of cells within a range that meet a single criterion that you specify. For example, you can count all the cells that start with a certain letter, or you can count all the cells that contain a number that is larger or smaller than a number you specify. For example, suppose you have a worksheet that contains a list of tasks in column A, and the first name of the person assigned to each task in column B. You can use the COUNTIF function to count how many times a person's name appears in column B and, in that way, determine how many tasks are assigned to that person. For example:

=COUNTIF(B2:B25,"Nancy")

Note To count cells based on multiple criteria, see COUNTIFS function.

Syntax

COUNTIF(range, criteria)

The COUNTIF function syntax has the following arguments:

range Required. One or more cells to count, including numbers or names, arrays, or references that contain numbers. Blank and text values are ignored.


criteria Required. A number, expression, cell reference, or text string that defines which cells will be counted. For example, criteria can be expressed as 32, ">32", B4, "apples", or "32".

Note

You can use the wildcard characters — the question mark (?) and the asterisk (*) — in criteria. A question mark matches any single character, and an asterisk matches any sequence of characters. If you want to find an actual question mark or asterisk, type a tilde (~) before the character.


Criteria are case insensitive; for example, the string "apples" and the string "APPLES" will match the same cells.



Remarks

The COUNTIF function returns incorrect results when you use it to match strings longer than 255 characters to the string #VALUE!.

muncybob

Yep, I use countif. It will still count an x with a strike through. I've seen where enabling macros and some VBA gets the job donne but I can't seem to make it work.

OleBoot

I am a) surprised that countif doesn't work, and b) didn't know how far along you were with the problem. Lucky that I am not bust at work today - quick gogole revealed this macro for counting strikethrough cells. So I guess use countif first, then the macro and subtract the result.

Public Function CountStrike(pWorkRng As Range) As Long
'Update 20140819
Application.Volatile
Dim pRng As Range
Dim xOut As Long
xOut = 0
For Each pRng In pWorkRng
If pRng.Font.Strikethrough Then
xOut = xOut + 1
End If
Next
CountStrike = xOut
End Function