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JP Long - 18 Nov 2005 00:16 GMT

I am having trouble with the COUNTIF function. I am searching for the
frequency of occurence for a name in a range of cells (not in a row or
left-most column). The name I am searching for is the result of a cell that
has been concatenated from other data.

Example:
Cell A43 reads: =CONCATENATE('Contact Info'!B2," ",'Contact Info'!A2)
resulting in the cell populating with a name (i.e. Shelly Bell)

I want to determine how many times that specific name repeats in data found
elsewhere in the worksheet. These results will be displayed in C43; the
search is occurring C10:C38.

I have tried =COUNTIF (C10:C38, "A43") but xl looks for A43 as the text.
I have tried =COUNTIF(A43,C10:C38) the other way and the formula box shows
"Shelly Bell" as the results of A43; however, the results still come back as
zero (0).

Frustration is setting in...please HELP!!

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Elkar - 18 Nov 2005 00:31 GMT

Try this:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(C10:C38=A43))

> I am having trouble with the COUNTIF function. I am searching for the
> frequency of occurence for a name in a range of cells (not in a row or
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> Frustration is setting in...please HELP!!

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JP Long - 18 Nov 2005 01:01 GMT

You ROCK! Just tried it out and it works great. Tell me... what is the
purpose of the "- -" at the beginning of the function?

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Max - 18 Nov 2005 00:55 GMT

Another option ..
Try removing the double quotes around the cell ref ("A43")
i.e. put in C43: =COUNTIF (C10:C38, A43)
It should work ..

And the formula in A43 could also be simplified a little by using the
ampersand operator "&" which is equiv to CONCATENATE,
i.e. in A43: ='Contact Info'!B2 & " " & 'Contact Info'!A2
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> I am having trouble with the COUNTIF function. I am searching for the
> frequency of occurence for a name in a range of cells (not in a row or
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> J. Paul Long
> Training Manager

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Harlan Grove - 18 Nov 2005 01:01 GMT

JP Long wrote...
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>Cell A43 reads: =CONCATENATE('Contact Info'!B2," ",'Contact Info'!A2)
>resulting in the cell populating with a name (i.e. Shelly Bell)
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>"Shelly Bell" as the results of A43; however, the results still come back as
>zero (0).

Have you tried

=COUNTIF(C10:C38,A43)

?

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