countif OR function

[Guest]

Hi

I am using the following formula to calculate the number of males and
females in my class lists.

It works well.

COUNTIF(D328,"M")

COUNTIF(D328,"F")


I want to count the total number of Males and Females, I am currently
using a a sum function on the range but is it possible to use an OR
expression inside a function?

Basically what I was looking for was a version of what follows (that
works!)


COUNTIF(D328,"M" or "F")

so if there were 5 males and 7 females it would return the value 12.

this is more for my own education than anything else.

Thanks

 

[Biff]

Hi!

Try one of these:

=COUNTIF(D328,"M")+COUNTIF(D328,"F")

=SUMPRODUCT(--(D328="M")+(D328="F"))

Biff

 

[Dave Peterson]

You could use:
=SUM(COUNTIF(D328,{"M","F"}))

or just
=COUNTIF(D328,"M") + COUNTIF(D328,"F")
(in one cell)

 

[David Billigmeier]

=SUMPRODUCT((D328="M")+(D328="F"))

 

[Guest]

Thanks everyone

that's great.

You could use:
=SUM(COUNTIF(D328,{"M","F"}))

or just
=COUNTIF(D328,"M") + COUNTIF(D328,"F")
(in one cell)

 

[Jerry W. Lewis]

Biff wrote:

....

=SUMPRODUCT(--(D328="M")+(D328="F"))

-- is redundant, because the addition coerces both logical arrays to
numbers.

Jerry