Please help!! Countif formula doesnn't work with text format

[shirley_kee]

Data is as follows:
A1 099
A2 99
A3 099
A4 99

The cells are all formatted as TEXT

In A5 is a formula =COUNTIF(A1:A4, A1)
The result incorrectly calculates to 4 not 2 which is what I woul
rather see.
Has anybody experienced this anomoly and how do I force COUNTIF t
evaluate the "literal text cell values" rather than a "numeri
conversion of the cell values" which appears to be happening

 

[Biff]

Hi!

Has anybody experienced this anomoly

Oh yeah!

Try this instead:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A4=A1))

Biff

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[shirley_kee]

The formula you gave me doesn't seem to work.

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A4=A1))

 

[Biff]

The formula you gave me doesn't seem to work.
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A4=A1))

Worked for me. Based on your sample it returns 2.

Biff

 

[shirley_kee]

It works now. I changed the range to A:A instead of A1:A4.

Thankx a lo

 

[Biff]

It works now. I changed the range to A:A instead of A1:A4.

Well, now that shouldn't work!!!

Sumproduct can't use entire columns as range references, A:A.

Biff