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Need help with a formula that counts the number of rows where a specific range of cells sums to x

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This has been driving me completely insane. But I just cannot seem to construct a formula which is outputting what I want. I'll give an example of what I'm looking for and then expand further. 

 

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(Say the numbers in the table represent members of the relative teams involved)

 

Essentially, what I'm looking to do. Is create a formula that counts the number of cases that have x team members attached to them, regardless of the team they're from. 

 

For this example, the chart I want to create looks like this,

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When the formula is complete, the table should look like this,

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 I can count the number of cases with x teams involved, but I just can't get the sum total of involved members. I have been staring at this for two hours and my brain is fried I simply do not know how to do it. 

 

Any help would be much appreciated. I hope this makes sense. If you require further clarity let me know.

 

Thank you!

 

 

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@tomdavidge 

I'd add a column to the first table with formula

=SUM(Table1[@[Team 1]:[Team 3]])

In the screenshot below, I named it Total.

You can then use

=COUNTIF(Table1[Total],[@[Number of Team Members Total Per Case]])

in the second table.

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Hello! Thanks for the reply. I did think about this but it is an ever expanding list so I would either have to have a recurring formula that would slow down my already pretty laden spreadsheet or manually add it every time and I was hoping it could be done within the formula
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@tomdavidge 

Excel will store the formula only once for the entire column, and it will automatically be added to new rows, so it's quite efficient actually

Oh my god, I'm a complete idiot. So for my actual piece of work. I only had conditional formatting putting it together as a table. I hadn't actually used the table function. So i had written off using reoccurring formulas like that. This has saved my **bleep**. Thank you my friend