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COUNT IF and COUNT IFS
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COUNT IF and COUNT IFS
When creating a formula when might you use COUNT IF and why might you use COUNT IFS instead
RE: COUNT IF and COUNT IFS
Hi Kate, thanks for your query. COUNTIF only counts those values in a single column that match a certain criteria. But consider:
A B
1 a
2 b
3 c
4 b
2 b
How would you count only those cells where the values are 2 and b, in the separate columns? Two separate COUNTIF fomulas and then add the results? You could use the COUNTIFS function to do so instead:
=COUNTIFS(A1:A5, "2", B1:B5, "b")
Basically, we talking multiple criteria checking. You can also do this with the array formulas I mentioned.
Hope this helps,
Anthony
Wed 18 Jul 2012: Automatically marked as resolved.
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