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Help with COUNTIFS
Hello! I have a table with a list of transactions by date. I would like to count the number of times a phrase appears in a particular year. How many times did we list "General Operating Support" in 2...
So it looks like there might just be something wrong with the way I have my date fields formatted. When I use mathetes idea of pulling out the Year into a separate column, my COUNTIFS idea worked fine. Now I also need to display the number of records that are NOT General Operating Support. I thought I could do
=countifs(A:A,E2,B:B,<>"General Operating Support")
but Excel doesn't like that.
=countifs(A:A,E2,B:B,<>"General Operating Support")
but Excel doesn't like that.
No, but, again if you have a current version of Excel, this formula, with FILTER at the heart of it, does work.
=COUNT(FILTER(A2:B34,(YEAR(A2:A34)=E2)*(B2:B34<>"General Operating Support")))
Here's a reference to help you understand FILTER, a very useful function in many circumstances.