{"id":1061,"date":"2019-05-03T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:45:14","slug":"the-countif-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/the-countif-function\/","title":{"rendered":"The COUNTIF Function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It returns the number of cells of a given cell range that meet a specific criterion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The syntax of the function is the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>COUNTIF<\/strong><em>(<\/em><strong>range, criterion<\/strong>) <\/p><cite><strong>range<\/strong>: The cells or range of cells we want to count.<br><strong>criterion<\/strong>: It is the criterion that defines which cells of the range should be included in the count.<br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The function is case insensitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can use the wildcard characters, question mark (?) and asterisk (*), in criteria. A question mark matches any single character; an asterisk matches any sequence of characters. If you want to find an actual question mark or asterisk, type a tilde (~) before the character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click on the button to practice using this function, with the help of our <strong>Online Assessment Tool<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"button-practice-container\" ><a class=\"button button-primary button-practice\" style=\"height:auto\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-content\/plugins\/unlimited-integration\/run.php?id=TS92VTVuUzN3TC8vR3d4TkdjSmIyMzRQckhmUjhZaHdmTWFQU1FsSDY0SnRHdlhIdUprYStsWDNrWWx2S3d5MA==&b=L21Ccm9ubE5RUHROMkhYejRYaEpqdDRVLzZNZ1c4SWE5b056NVNFemQycGg1MkVpZHIzMWZFSmliTEk2NTNNY1Vaa1Z5R1BKZ3I4V242RE9rMWJHS205dXBEODFwUTdDU0NaQTRiYTBOaVE9\">Practice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here is an example of how to use the COUNTIF function:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Navigate to the cell A13 and use the appropriate function to Count how many products are charged with a final price greater than 250.00\u20ac<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Use the COUNTIF function to calculate the number of cells in a cell range using a single criterion\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7CficbMX0tk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It returns the number of cells of a given cell range that meet a specific criterion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[161,14],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-functions","tag-countif","tag-statistical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}