Forum Discussion
Help with Excel formula - Countif - Sumproduct
soccer85 I have added some formulae to your workbook and made one fundamental change. Column U now calculates (Close date -/- Due date) / 7 to determine the number of weeks. By using custom formatting, numbers are displayed as "Greater" (positive), "Less" (negative) or "Equal" (zero). But the underlying values are still numbers that are used in the table at the botton, where COUNTIF is used to summarise the results as desired.
- soccer85Jan 07, 2021Copper Contributor
Thanks it kinda make sense. However, after looking this over. I am trying to eliminate column u i just want to nest the formula i created in column v (If statement) into a countif/sumproduct or whatever works so it looks cleaner. The formula should start on t51. Not sure if the formula in column U can be simplified?
at the end of the day i just want to create a column graph showing the number of items that are with these specific tags" Quick Turnaround" "On Time" etc....
Thanks again.
- Riny_van_EekelenJan 07, 2021Platinum Contributor
soccer85 Oh my, what a formula! Why not create a lookup table with the options for each status. An example is included in Sheet4. Then you can avoid these horrible nested IF formulae with hard-coded boundaries and descriptions.
Perhaps an approach you want to apply in other areas of your schedule as well. It seems you have made it overly complicated, but that's just my own humble opinion.