COUNTIF for Increasing Column

[sk2018]

[TABLE="class: outer_border, width: 600"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]A[/TD]
[TD]B[/TD]
[TD]C[/TD]
[TD]D[/TD]
[TD]E[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Apple[/TD]
[TD]Orange[/TD]
[TD]Kiwi[/TD]
[TD]Response 1[/TD]
[TD]Response 2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]=countif(D2:E2, "Apple")
[/TD]
[TD]=countif(D2:E2,"Orange")[/TD]
[TD]=countif(D2:E2,"Kiwi")[/TD]
[TD]Apple[/TD]
[TD]Kiwi[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Do refer to the above for your understanding.

Given that as time goes by, I will have data add on Column F, G, H, I and etc onwards.
Is there any way for me to count the number of Apple, Orange, Kiwi starting from Column D onwards.


I do not want to set it as Table as I have plenty of worksheets and need to distribute to others to use.
I'm not considering of using the range of D2:Z2 or whichever wide range as to avoid any deletion of columns that may take place.

Is there any formula that will be able to detect the last notblank columns and make it as the range?


Thanks.

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

Awesome!!!
you solve the problem which I had been trying for the whole day!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot!!!

You are welcome.

 

[sk2018]

You could use this method;

	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U
Apple	Orange	Kiwi	Grapes	Cherries	Sample Picklist	Response 1	Response 2	Response 3
Apple	Cherries	Kiwi

<tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

</tbody>

Sheet1​

[TABLE="width: 85%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Worksheet Formulas[TABLE="width: 100%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TH]Cell[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Formula[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]M2[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]=SUMPRODUCT(--(COUNTIF(responses,M$1)))[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]N2[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]=SUMPRODUCT(--(COUNTIF(responses,N$1)))[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]O2[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]=SUMPRODUCT(--(COUNTIF(responses,O$1)))[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]P2[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]=SUMPRODUCT(--(COUNTIF(responses,P$1)))[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]Q2[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]=SUMPRODUCT(--(COUNTIF(responses,Q$1)))[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

[TABLE="width: 85%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Workbook Defined Names[TABLE="width: 100%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TH]Name[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Refers To[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]responses[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]=OFFSET(Sheet1!$S$2,,,,COUNTIF(Sheet1!$S$2:$XFD$2,"?*"))[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Oh yes - this is working too.
Geez there are so many ways to solve the same problem in XLS.

Glad that the people here are very helpful too.
Thanks for the solution.

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

Oh yes - this is working too.
Geez there are so many ways to solve the same problem in XLS.

Glad that the people here are very helpful too.
Thanks for the solution.

But not efficient because of array-processing and the volatile OFFSET function. Potentially wrong too when there are empty/blanks cells.

 

[RasGhul]

Is there a scenario where we couldn't just use;

=COUNTIF($S$2:$XFD$2,M$1)?