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  1. March 16th, 2006, 05:57 PM #1
    JewishIntent
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    Excel Formula Question

    Ok i am trying to do a little bit of the above and beyond my normal job duties thing and am running into a wall with trying to write this equation so i was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction. I have 3 collums. Collum C has formulas in it so that if A and B in the same row both have an X in the cell than cell C in that row will show an X as well, otherwise it shows a O. What i am trying to write now is a statemane that will allow me to show the realtime percentage of cells in collum C that have an X.
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  2. March 16th, 2006, 06:01 PM #2
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    Re: Excel Formula Question

    Originally posted here by JewishIntent
    Ok i am trying to do a little bit of the above and beyond my normal job duties thing and am running into a wall with trying to write this equation so i was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction. I have 3 collums. Collum C has formulas in it so that if A and B in the same row both have an X in the cell than cell C in that row will show an X as well, otherwise it shows a O. What i am trying to write now is a statemane that will allow me to show the realtime percentage of cells in collum C that have an X.
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  3. March 16th, 2006, 06:27 PM #3
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    You can use the countif function to return all the amount of x and o then work out the percentage...
    off the top of my head something like..

    =countif(c1:c100, "x")*(100/(countif(c1:c100, "x")+countif(c1:c100, "o")))

    percentage=howmanyx*(100/(howmanyx+howmanyy))

    I hope this helps.


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  4. March 16th, 2006, 06:29 PM #4
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    Well i went there and while i probably could have gotten the answers i needed i just don't have the time to go searching through all of that. BUT i was able to figure it out anyway. Posting my solution below in case anyone else needs something like this.

    =(COUNTIF(C2:C15,"X"))/COUNTA(C2:C15)

    This will count the number of cells with X in it and divide it by the total number of cells with data in it giving me a real time percentage. Note that all of my data is between cells C2 and C15.
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  5. March 17th, 2006, 02:05 AM #5
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    That will teach me to go and eat before I post Well I'm going to do it anyway!!
    And the "/COUNTA(cell:cell) works as you found.

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