Counting based on other cells

**acvitanov** · 11-14-2012, 11:14 AM

I'm trying to use excel to count how many cells within a specified range are blank, based on whether a different range matches a third range. Example below:

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5
75 p143 4 234 x43 4 43 332 1 1 1 1 43 5 23 33

Above is my data

1 2 3 4 5
I want then for excel to count how many cells in row 2 are not blank, when row 1 is equal to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

Thoughts??

**elcarp** · 11-14-2012, 11:18 AM

Will row one contain any blanks?

**alansidman** · 11-14-2012, 11:19 AM

It is difficult to determine what your layout is in the thread. Please attach a file that shows your current structure and what your expected results are. Click on Go Advanced to upload a file.

**FDibbins** · 11-14-2012, 11:19 AM

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook. The workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.

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**biocidej** · 11-14-2012, 11:19 AM

According to your user info, you are using XL2007 so you can use the COUNTIFS formula as such

=COUNTIFS(1:1,A4,2:2,"<>")
where A4 is the number you are looking up, (i.e. 1, 2, 3, etc.)

**acvitanov** · 11-14-2012, 11:22 AM

Example Data.xlsx

Attached should be example information.

Row 1 will always contain information
Row 2 will contain some numerical only cells and some text/number cells

I want a formula that will return the results that are in row 5

**acvitanov** · 11-14-2012, 11:25 AM

Biocidej, your solution works. Can you explain the phrasing? I don't understand how there are 4 arguments in the formula....

**biocidej** · 11-14-2012, 11:31 AM

Sure, COUNTIFS is similar to COUNTIF, however, it allows for multiple criteria (up to 127 different range/criteria pairs)

according to the help file..
COUNTIFS(criteria_range1, criteria1, [criteria_range2, criteria2]…)
criteria_range1 = 1:1 (the first row)
criteria1 = A4 (the number you are looking for in the first row)
criteria_range2 = 2:2 (the second row)
criteria2 = "<>" (this is the notation in countif for non-blanks)