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[Closed] Simple excel question

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I've got a sheet with several columns and about 1500 rows. I'm using autofilter to do basic analysis on the data.

If I autofilter search for a certain text input, say "south", is there a command that will let me count the number of entries of "south"?


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:22 pm
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yes


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:24 pm
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and what is it o'wise one?


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:26 pm
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highlight the cells and on the bottom right of the screen there's a wee little box that you can right click on (should say NUM I think), right click on this and choose which one you want it to report (in your case it'd be Count Nums).


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:27 pm
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Er look in the help under functions.

It's something like COUNT maybe, I forget.


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:29 pm
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You could put a column of "1" all the way down and just sum this. The sum corrects depending on the autofilter.


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:32 pm
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Ah lovely, that'll do.

I'm a bit allergic to excel help function.


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:37 pm
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I did the "1" count already, but thought there must be a better way


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:38 pm
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countif


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:39 pm
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=COUNTIF(A1:A2,south)

Change A1:A2 to the range.


 
Posted : 04/03/2011 1:42 pm