SUMMARY: Count the number of cells in a range that meet a specified criterion.
You may need to determine how many cells in a given range meet a certain condition. You might want to count how many values in a list are above a certain number. Or, for example, how many of your employees listed in a Human Resources spreadsheet are managers.
Use the Microsoft Excel 2003 function =countif to perform this task.
Take this list of employees, their job titles, and salaries:
A B C
1 Matt Customer Service $22,000
2 John Sales $34,000
3 Jane Executive $52,000
4 Mary Manager $46,000
5 Sue Sales $28,000
6 Mark Customer Service $25,000
Syntax:
=countif(RANGE,CRITERION)
RANGE is the range of cells you want to count.
CRITERION is the condition you want to specify to count.
For example, to count the number of people in Sales:
=countif(B1:B6,"Sales")
This will return 2, the number of employees you have in sales.
Or, if you want to find out how many employees have a salary over $30,000, use:
=countif(C1:C6, >30000)
This will return 3.
