Question

I need to count the cells in column A with the word “Alex White”, if in the same row in the cell in column D the text starts with “2012.02”? What could be the Excel 2010 formula for that?

None of the formulas below worked for me:

=SUM(IF(A2:A5000="Alex";1;0)+IF(D2:D5000="2012.02*";1;0))
=SUM(IF(AND((A2:A5000="Alex");(LEFT(D3;7)="2012.02"));1;0))
=SUMPRODUCT((D2:D5000="2012.02*");(A2:A5000="Alex"))

I’ll be looking forward to your answer!

Answer 1

The array formulas of stephan and Excelll will work but I would like to point out that you could use COUNTIFS:

=COUNTIFS(A2:A5000,"Alex White",D2:D5000,"2012.02*")

or the french version (one never knows if needed):

=NB.SI.ENS(A2:A5000;"Alex White";D2:D5000;"2012.02*")