finding certain letters and returning a value

happyman123uk

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I have a spread sheet which I am working on and want to be able to say if a certain letter is entered into a cell it returns a certain value

W=3 points
D=1 point
L=0 points

so if

a1=W
a2=L
a3=W
a4=D
a5=W
a6=L
a7=W
a8=W

a9 would contain the answer which should be 16
 

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Hi,

Try:


Excel 2010
A
1W
2L
3W
4D
5W
6L
7W
8W
916
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A9=COUNTIF(A1:A8,"W")*3+COUNTIF(A1:A8,"D")
 
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Try:
Code:
=(COUNTIF(A1:A8,"W")*3)+COUNTIF(A1:A8,"D")
 
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