Trying to summarize how many cells are NOT something else (an "other" category)
Hi All - I have over 10 options for a column with drop-downs. Most occur more than many times, but there are about 5 or 6 options in the drop-down menu that only occur once or twice. In my summary sheet, I want to lump all those drop-down selections as "Other." But I need a way to tally them. I'm using this to tally the 9 categories and basically thought I would use a NOT formula to exclude each of those 9. Here's what I have:
=COUNTIFS({NAME OF SHEET Range 3}, HAS(@cell, "Technological / IT"))
I'm using that to tally each cell that includes the drop-down selection of Technological / IT and so on and so forth for each of the categories. But what formula would I use to capture EVERYTHING BUT those 9 I'm already counting? How do I do that?
I tried this and it didn't work:
=COUNTIFS({NAME OF SHEET Range 3}, NOT(@cell, "Technological / IT"), NOT(@cell, "Health-Related Emergency"), NOT(@cell, "Fire"), NOT(@cell, "Election"), NOT(@cell, "Severe Weather"), NOT(@cell, "Active Shooter"), NOT(@cell, "Utilities Outage"), NOT(@cell, "All Hazards"), NOT(@cell, "Injuries/Mass Casualties"))
It gave me an incomplete argument set error.
Any thoughts?
Answers
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I'm thinking that you're using the HAS function in that first formula because you've got a multi-select drop-down, so not sure if what I'm putting in here will work for your specific scenario, but maybe it'll get you going in the right direction.
=COUNTIFS(testing:testing, NOT(OR(@cell = "Option 1", @cell = "Option 2", @cell = "Option 3", @cell = "Option 4")), testing:testing, NOT(ISBLANK(@cell)))
Replace what I used 'testing' as a column header with your {NAME OF SHEET Range 3}.
Replace what I used as 'Option 1, Option 2, etc.' with your specific items.
See if the combination of NOT and OR help get you what you're looking for. The second range/criteria was needed to not count the blank rows at the bottom of the sheet.
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