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by - delegate Alison [8 posts] (2008 Jan 9 Wed, 11:25) Reply

How is the easiest way to Count the number of Items in a list which are words. For example if you had a list of Hotels in London and Edinburgh, how can you easily count the london entries, without putting in an extra column with 1 in it?

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by - trainer Amanda diamond contributer [1243 posts] (2008 Jan 10 Thu, 13:55) Reply

Hi Alison

Thank you for your question.

There is a function called COUNTA which can be used to count text or alpha-numeric entries in a spreadsheet.

So if your list of hotels was in A3:A22, you could enter =counta(A3:A22) and it will tell you how many entries there are in that range.

I hope this helps.
Amanda

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by - delegate Alison [8 posts] (2008 Jan 16 Wed, 15:40) Reply

Thank you

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Entering text in Multiple Worksheets

If you have a number of worksheets in a workbook that require the same information (data or tables) on each worksheet, this can be done as follows:

Hold down the Ctrl key and click one or more of the additional worksheet tabs (i.e. Sheet2, Sheet3, etc).

In your mainsheet (Sheet1) enter the required data or design a table.

When done 'Click' on the other sheet tabs and you will see that the information entered in Sheet1 is on all the other selected worksheets.

NB Do not forget to deselect the worksheets - otherwise you may add data to the main worksheet and all the selected worksheets will also have that data!

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