How do I COUNTIF in excel using multiple criteria?

I am trying to set up a function which looks to see if multiple criteria,
across different columns are met.

Idealy I should think the following function should work, but alas, it does
not:

=COUNTIF(AND(A1:A5=1, B1:B5=2))

Any suggestions?

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A5=1)*(B1:B5=2)*(C1:C5=3)) etc

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Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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"DJ_Swammi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I am trying to set up a function which looks to see if multiple criteria,
> across different columns are met.
>
> Idealy I should think the following function should work, but alas, it
> does
> not:
>
> =COUNTIF(AND(A1:A5=1, B1:B5=2))
>
> Any suggestions?

Check this site for using SUMPRODUCT for calculations involving multiple
criteria:
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html
Another means is using the DCOUNT function.


"DJ_Swammi" wrote:

> I am trying to set up a function which looks to see if multiple criteria,
> across different columns are met.
>
> Idealy I should think the following function should work, but alas, it does
> not:
>
> =COUNTIF(AND(A1:A5=1, B1:B5=2))
>
> Any suggestions?

Thank you, this has been very helpful!

You're welcome :-)


"DJ_Swammi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Thank you, this has been very helpful!
>
>