Attempting to count cells in Excel using multiple criteria

Question

As the title states, I am trying to count across cell ranges on a separate sheet but cant seem to get it to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Answer 1

You cannot use the MONTH function as a form of sub-function in a COUNTIFS function. You need to add an extra level of calculation with something like a SUMPRODUCT function.

=SUMPRODUCT((MONTH(original!A2:A58)=1)*(original!D2:D58="East"))

That should count the instances where the month of the date in the Original worksheet's column A is January and the corresponding row's column D is East.

If you prefer to stay with a COUNTIFS and can keep the dates to a single year, you can provide a start date and end date which will bracket the month of January for a particular year.

=COUNTIFS(Original!A2:A58,">="&DATE(2015,1,1),Original!A2:A58,"<"&DATE(2015,2,1),Original!D2:D58,"East")

The default comparison operator for COUNTIFS is equals. There is no need to type it in.

Answer 2

The issue is the Month() part in your formula. I understand your logic, but you'll have to probably add a new column on the Original sheet that has the month formula conversion there, then update the countif to reference it.

COUNTIFS(Original!monthcol, "1", Original!col, "East")

Again, in summary the Month formula can't do the conversion for an entire range of cells in the CountIf. The only other way would require an array formula. Hope this helps.