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hpr2069 :: Counting Stuff in LibreOffice Calc

I try to explain how to use the COUNTIF function in LibreOffice to generate reports

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LibreOffice, formulas, tips and tricks. 1.
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LibreOffice.

In this in-depth series on LibreOffice we examine Writer, Calc and Impress

When I took over as Director of the School of Music in January, one of the first things I did was to try to get a better handle on the number of faculty I had at various ranks, how many had terminal degrees, how many already had tenure, how many were on tenure track, how many held endowed professorships, and so forth. Somewhere in the process, I discovered a handy trick for generating reports for this kind of thing. It's the COUNTIF function of LibreOffice calc. In this episode I will go through some examples of ways that I've used COUNTIF to generate reports.

Examples

Count occurrences of the string from A6 of current sheet on other sheet Personnel in column K

=COUNTIF($Personnel.$K$1:$K$135,Reports.A6)

Count occurrences of explicit string on other sheet "Personnel" in column K

=COUNTIF($Personnel.$K$1:$K$135,"=Instructor")

Count greater than or equal to 50

=COUNTIF($I$2:$I$105,">=50")

Using SUMPRODUCT, count between range greater than or equal to 40 but less than 50

=SUMPRODUCT($I$2:$I$105>=40,$I$2:$I$105<50)

Look for the string from sheet "Reports," cell A21, in the sheet "Personnel" column U, excluding any rows that have the value "Adjunct" in column K.

=COUNTIFS($Personnel.$U$1:$U$135,Reports.A21,$Personnel.$K$1:$K$135,"<>Adjunct")

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Comment #1 posted on 2016-07-08 04:53:35 by b-yeezi

Thanks for the quick tips

I already know about countif. There is also a function called sumif, which is similar. Instead of counting, it will sum up the values of a given range if criteria is met in another range.

Consider:

red | 1
blue | 4
green | 6
red | 4

=sumif(A1:A4,"red",B1:B4)
result: 5

The sumproduct was new for me. I have already started to use it. Keep up the informative shows.

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