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COUNTIFS LESS THAN YEAR 2017 does not work when I use "<"&2017
Hello,
My COUNTIFS less than year 2017 formula does not work, please see below and in attached excel the cell highlighted in yellow.
=COUNTIFS(Indirect!AI:AI,"Agent",Indirect!AQ:AQ,"<"&2017,Indirect!AR:AR,"0")
Thanks!
Jenny
Nope, I didn't re-format the data.
You may try alternative formula
=SUMPRODUCT( (Indirect!AI:AI="Agent")*(Indirect!AQ:AQ<"2017")*(Indirect!AR:AR="0"))it's here
plus please check if in main file you have texts or numbers like
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I didn't check the file, but it shall be like
=COUNTIFS(Indirect!AI:AI,"Agent",Indirect!AQ:AQ,"<2017",Indirect!AR:AR,0)Sadly I tried that first and it did not work 😞 SergeiBaklan
Sorry, was in shortage of time yesterday to check the file carefully.
You keep years Years and EC previously? flag as texts, not as numbers. With using COUNIFS it always converts criteria parameter from text to number if text represents number (or date). Thus you compare as "2007" < 2007 and since any text is always "more" than any number we have zero result. The workaround is to add soften hyphen before such parameters. Thus the formula could be
=COUNTIFS(Indirect!AI:AI,"Agent", Indirect!AQ:AQ,"<"&CHAR(173)&"2017", Indirect!AR:AR,CHAR(173)&"0" )Another option is to use SUMPRODUCT()
