CountIFS

[studio95]

Morning Gents,

I have a sheet with 3 named ranges, I want (on a separate sheet) a cell which counts all occurrences of the word "Bank Holiday" within all three named ranges. I have attempted to use the following:- (AAPR1, AAPR2, AAPR3 are the named ranges)

=COUNTIFS(AAPR1,"Bank Holiday",AAPR2,"Bank Holiday",AAPR3,"Bank Holiday")

There is no error reported when the above is entered but likewise is returning no values. I don't know if it makes any difference but the word "Bank Holiday" is selected from a data validation list, I dont see why it would make a difference as when i just use =COUNTIF(AAPR1,"Bank Holiday") it returns a value.

Thank you for your help.

 

[slinky]

I'm only running Excel 2k3 here, so can't validate my thoughts, but IIRC COUNTIFS() doesn't work in that fashion. COUNTIFS() will count within one range against multiple criteria, as opposed to multiple ranges with singular criteria per range.

To achieve the result you need you would need to add multiple COUNTIF() statements together.

=COUNTIF(AAPR1,"Bank Holiday")+COUNTIF(AAPR1=2,"Bank Holiday")+COUNTIF(AAPR3,"Bank Holiday")

(Of course, I could be wrong..)

 

[studio95]

I'm only running Excel 2k3 here, so can't validate my thoughts, but IIRC COUNTIFS() doesn't work in that fashion. COUNTIFS() will count within one range against multiple criteria, as opposed to multiple ranges with singular criteria per range.

To achieve the result you need you would need to add multiple COUNTIF() statements together.

=COUNTIF(AAPR1,"Bank Holiday")+COUNTIF(AAPR1=2,"Bank Holiday")+COUNTIF(AAPR3,"Bank Holiday")

(Of course, I could be wrong..)

You are far from wrong Slinky, you are spot on other than you had (AAPR1=2) which I just changed to AAPR2! which then worked a treat!

Thank you buddy.