How to make Excel count specific letters as "1" and then have them summed up?

[VacationPlanner]

Hi there!

I work as a vacation planner and I've made an Excel sheet for the upcoming summer!

At my work only 33% of the staff are allowed to have vacation at the same time...
...unless the employees have kids and applies for "Parental vacation" (wich is regulated by governmental law) wich is counted beside the 33%...

My problem/question is as follows:

Is it possible to see "F" as "1" and then have all the "F:s" in a column summed up? Is it also possible to have some "S" in the same column and also see them as "1" as well but summing them up separately?

In my problem/question "F" stands for "Parental vacation" and "S" for "plain vacation"!

[Pepe Le Mokko]

Hi
you may use something like =COUNTIF(your_range,"f")

[TMS]

You could use COUNTIF


=COUNTIF(A:A,"F")


Regards, TMS

[VacationPlanner]

Thank you!

I will try and get back to you with a big thanks or additional questions!

Best regards

Fredrik

[VacationPlanner]

I tried =COUNTIF(D7:D87,"F")

But it says "wrong formula"...Excel denies the code...

Have I done something wrong?

[Fotis1991]

Hi

Try not with gomma!

=COUNTIF(D7:D87;"F")

And if you want "S" too, try this.

=COUNTIF(D7:D87;"F")+=COUNTIF(D7:D87;"S")

[Firefly2012]

Are you using a Swedish language version of Excel? I believe your formula name therefore is ANTAL.OM

Since I can't test this I am unsure if this is true, but try:

=ANTAL.OM(D7:D87,"F")

[VacationPlanner]

Thanks for your help guys! You are awesome!

I use a swedish version so the problem was initially the "countif" thing and the comma...

With this formula:

=ANTAL.OM(D7:D87;"F")

I make Excel accept the code, but now Excel asks for wich cell in the column I want to count. I have placed four "F:s" in the column and was hoping to get a "4" in my "sum-cell"...but excel keeps asking wich "F" I want to count...I want to count the whole column...

[TMS]

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. Don't upload a picture when you have a workbook question. None of us is inclined to recreate your data. Upload the workbook and manually add an 'after' situation so that we can see what you expect. In addition clearly explain how you get the results..
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[VacationPlanner]

Hey guys!

I got it working! You are the best!

Multiple thanks!!!

[TMS]

You're welcome.

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