New to Excel and got tasked with making a large workbook with multiple sheets

[shadowfax4269]

Hello All,

I am fairly new to excel and my department is using excel 2000. My department has tasked my with creating a trainee evaluation forms for all our new officers. I have the basic format and everything set up the way they want it to look. The problem I am having is that they want summaries of what each trainee scored in each of the different area of training on a scale of 1-7. They want the trainer to be able to just put an "x" in the the boxes labeled 1-7, and then have the total "x"s added up at the end of each phase. So Far instance....

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Each sheet will have a line like this with a total of 29 items to be reviewed. They want a seperate sheet made for each day of training. How can I total up the number of "x"'s entered over multiple sheets onto a summary sheet. Say if in the above example the "x" is in cell R19? Each sheet would then be titled say "Phase1E1". I somehow need to get all the cell marked with and "x" in R19 from sheets "Phase1E1" through "Phase1E10" to total up onto sheet 11 which will be called "Phase1Total" in cell R19 on that sheet?

Sorry if this seems confusing. I have tried searching the forums and trying formulas using =countif and =sumif but have had no luck for far. Thank you all for your time and patience.

 

[Special-K99]

I got this from an Excel help webpage, tested it with Sheet1 and Sheet2 and it seems to work. Try this in R19 of your summary sheet:

=SUM(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("Phase1E"&{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}&"!R19"),"=x"))

 

[shadowfax4269]

Special K99 I think you might have just solved my problem!! So far seems to work great! I'll try it through the rest of the sheets and see how it goes! Thanks again!!!