dear ramesh,this is because u are dragging the cell downward for using same formula... if u want to drag the cell downwards without changing the data range pls make use of "$" sign eg- =COUNTIF(B$2:B$11,"F") hope ur doubt is clear.. MANOJ N KARATE. Sub Engineer (Roads) W.S. Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. Mobile No: - 0993096220
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Ramesh Katta <kr.sap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Members, > > My question seems to be very simple, please don't laugh at me. > > I have 2 columns that are A1 contains Names and B1 contains Sex of > employee. When finding no. of males and females using countif() > function. When I copied the function I am getting range difference. > > For ex: > > =countif(a2:a10,"M") when I copied this range to below cell and > changed criteria to "F" but it taking range from a3:a10. > > Please clarify this doubt. This was asked in interview. > > I attached excel sheet with this mail. > > Thanks&Regards > Ramesh > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
