Maybe someone can help me. I am trying to count the “yes” in my column. I did the countif function and still comes out counting all cells that have something in them. I thought maybe it isn’t recognizing the yes as a text so I changed that too. Still comes back counting everything in the cells. What am I doing wrong?

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Quick fix is just assign 1 for yes, 0 for no, then count if. I know that’s not exactly what you’re looking for but might be the easiest if the function isn’t working for some reason

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That worked but I really wanted to have the yes no and not the 0,1. Guess this will work for now. Thanks for the suggestion

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Do you have any extraneous spaces in the range cells?

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Pivot table

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On the Formulas tab, in the Calculation group, click Calculation Options, and then click Automatic

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It worked on my co-workers computer so I’m going to call my IT dept to see if they need to reinstall Microsoft on my computer.

Thanks everyone

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Can you post a pic (with dummy data, this is a public forum)?

Regardless, do you want to count THE CELLS THAT ONLY have “yes” on them, or THE CELLS THAT contain “yes” on them? (If the cell has “yes ma’am” should be counted?)

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I have yes and no in the column. I only want to count the yes’s

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So, it should be as simple as =COUNTIFS(range,"yes")

Where "range" refers to the reference where the cells are (e.g.; A1:A100)

You can also use =COUNTIF()

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I have that and I keep getting a “0” as the total. It isn’t counting my “yes” in the column.

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Why not do find and select, go ti special, blanks, and then select the blanks?

No I just checked and retyped it to make sure. Still comes up zero

From your picture, I think your countif formula "yes**", there is a space where the stars are

Does clicking save do the magic? Sometimes formula could be turned off

Can you add a filter to the top, only filter the yes's, and then see how many are in that column by highlighting it and seeing your total count, minus the header line? I'm new to excel but that works for me.

Replace ”Yes“ by A32

It doesn’t look like you’re doing anything wrong. Is there anything weird with your formatting of the text? Does it work if you create a reference cell instead of typing the “yes” in your formula?

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Create a pivot table, then use the count from the pivot table (but super weird everything you have already tried doesn’t work)

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