[mso] Re: FW: CountIF help
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:36:42 -0400
Obviously you DID have your morning coffee Ray LOL
The other thing you can do, Colin, is put =TODAY() in some other cell and
hide that cell..let's say you put it in F20
Then the formula could be =COUNTIF(A1:F4,"<=F20")
Hey Ray...yours works great...but I'm not sure I understand it. Why is <=
inside quotes and the Today formula is not?
Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ray Blake
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:27 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] FW: CountIF help
I just tested this myself, and it still doesn't work, but I've fixed it.
My starting point for the formula was this:
=COUNTIF(A1:A4,"<=TODAY()")
Just like you, I was expecting some hits, but got a zero. I started thinking
about the effect of putting a formula inside a string, and realised that it
wouldn't work that way. So I built a way of resolving the function outside
the string and then tagging the result onto it, like this:
=COUNTIF(A1:A4,"<="&TODAY())
This version actually works like you want, Colin.
Ray Blake
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Blake [mailto:ray@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 September 2003 13:57
To: 'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [mso] CountIF help
Colin,
The obvious thing you're missing is far from obvious!
For some reason, Excel treats TODAY as a function rather than a variable, so
it always needs to be followed by an empty set of brackets,
thus:
TODAY()
Ray Blake
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