Tag Archives: Sumproduct

The Countif bug (and how to avoid it)

Posted on 22/12/2017 by dougaj4

The Countif function counts the number of cells in a range that match some criterion.  If we enter 1,2,3 in cells A1:A3 and enter =COUNTIF($A$1:$A$3,A1) somewhere else, it will return 1: But if we enter three text strings with 16 … Continue reading →

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More on Sums

Posted on 18/12/2015 by dougaj4

My post from last week, on using the Aggregate function to find the maximum and minimum of a range ignoring errors, was linked in the Contextures Blog’s weekly roundup, which also linked to the Contextures page of Sum Function examples.  This includes … Continue reading →

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