Help, Countif

I had this spreadsheet set up with just straight yes or no or na answers, and it worked fine, but then they filled out the sheet with y or n and some did yes or no and of course the formulas didn't work correctly. Is there a way for this formula to find the correct percentage possible if they do one way or the other or both ways?

Try this formula in C34:

=IFERROR(COUNTIF(C2:C31,"*y*")/COUNTIF(C2:C31,"<>"),"")

then copy across as required. It will return the %age of YES, or yes, or Y or y (or even Yeah !) entries compared to the count of all non-empty entries in the column.

Hope this helps.

Pete

Thank you so much Pete, it works - I don't understand how, but I'll take it!!!

Glad to help, Michele.

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