Excel® 2010 Bible

Chapter 13. Creating Formulas That Count and Sum

IN THIS CHAPTER

Information on counting and summing cells

Basic counting formulas

Advanced counting formulas

Formulas for performing common summing tasks

Conditional summing formulas using a single criterion

Conditional summing formulas using multiple criteria

Many of the most common spreadsheet questions involve counting and summing values and other worksheet elements. It seems that people are always looking for formulas to count or to sum various items in a worksheet. If I've done my job, this chapter answers the vast majority of such questions. It contains many examples that you can easily adapt to your own situation.

13.1. Counting and Summing Worksheet Cells

Generally, a counting formula returns the number of cells in a specified range that meet certain criteria. A summing formula returns the sum of the values of the cells in a range that meet certain criteria. The range you want counted or summed may or may not consist of a worksheet database.

Table 13.1 lists the Excel worksheet functions that come into play when creating counting and summing formulas. Not all these functions are covered in this chapter. If none of the functions in Table 13.1 can solve your problem, it's likely that an array formula can come to the rescue.

NOTE

See Chapters 16 and 17 for detailed information and examples of array formulas used for counting and summing.

NOTE

If your data is in the form of a table, you can use autofiltering to accomplish many ...