I agree, 3D counting/summing is somewhat crippled. I don't think it is any
better in Office 12 either (but I may be wrong<G>).

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Gizmo63" <Gizmo63@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Bob (again!),
> I doubt I would have ever got to that combination. Shame you can't just
> specifiy "sheet1:sheet26". Maybe Microsoft will add it sometime.
>
> Cheers, Giz
>
> "Bob Phillips" wrote:
>
> > =SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&C1:C3&"'!C8"),"value"))
> >
> > where C1:C3 is a range housing the relevant sheetnames in
> > separate cells.
> >
> > --
> > HTH
> >
> > Bob Phillips
> >
> > (remove nothere from email address if mailing direct)
> >
> > "Gizmo63" <Gizmo63@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:95CD5B17-DF54-4673-8573-8B49D1EB4F7E@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi folks,
> > > I'm pulling together the results of multiple questionaires taking the
form
> > > of a numeric answer (1-4). The responses have been pulled into a
master
> > > workbook and the all reside between marker tabs ("first" and "last").
> > >
> > > Some formulas work OK across the range but not all. e.g
> > > =SUM('first:last'!F4) returns a valid answer as do AVERAGE, COUNT and
> > COUNTA
> > >
> > > However COUNTIF or SUMIF all return #Value errors. It's not formatting
or
> > > bad input as the error still occurs when there is only 1 data sheet
> > between
> > > the marker tabs.
> > >
> > > I suspect it may need an 'array' type formula but that's not a strong
area
> > > for me.
> > >
> > > Can anyone give me a working COUNTIF formula?
> > >
> > > Many thanks, Giz
> >
> >
> >