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Beckie has attended:
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when doing a 'count' formula it comes up with an error when only selecting once individual cell to include in a range. Is there a way around this?
RE: Formulas
Hi Beckie, thanks for your query. That sounds odd. =COUNT(A1) should return 1 if a number is in cell A1. Can you supply a bit more information about what you are trying to count?
Anthony
RE: Formulas
Hi Anthony
Thanks for getting back to me,
I have a list of names on a spreadsheet where i want a total at the bottom of the number of cells with names in as they are everchanging and i dont want to physcially count it up everytime i want to add a new name/remove one.
I found that if i was totaling multiple names i.e. from A1 to A21 it was fine however my column of totals is broken into department where there may only be 1 name in one of the departments meaning i only want to add 1 to my toal i.e. cell ref A22. Ive done a sort of example below,
Dept 1
name
name
name
Dept 2
name
It doesnt let me include just 1 cell there has to be multiple.
Thanks
Beckie
RE: Formulas
Hi Beckie. Ah, names! Replace COUNT with COUNTA in your formula. That will count text values rather than numbers which is what I think is causing the problem. Let me know how you get on.
Anthony
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