Counting cells with formulas

My underlying issue is that I'm trying to count cells that begin with a certain number. The data that is present in my SubCategory column is a picklist. Examples:

106 COST BILLED IN ERROR
110 FAILURE TO PURSUE PAYMENT AFTER INVOICE SUBMISSION
201 CLIENT FAILED TO COMMUNICATE WITH FIRM
207 PER CLIENT - COST IS NOT BILLABLE

So, I'm looking to count everything that begins with "1" or "2" and so on.

My first attempt was to create another column with a formula for "left" that pulled the first digit from the SubCategory column. However, when I do my Countif, the results are 0. I believe the Countif is looking at the formula & not the value.

Any suggestions on how to deal with this?

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Paul Newcome

Can you post your exact LEFT and exact COUNTIF formulas? It may be that your COUNTIF is looking for a numeric value, but your LEFT formula is producing a text value.

Donni Matthew

Here is the LEN formula: =LEFT([Reason SubCategory]1, 1)

Here is the IFCOUNT formula: =COUNTIF({NY Credit Authorization Range 1}, "1")

Paul Newcome

Wrap your LEFT statement in a VALUE function.

=VALUE(LEFT([Reason SubCategory]1, 1))

and remove the quotes from around the 1 in your COUNTIF.

=COUNTIF({NY Credit Authorization Range 1}, 1)

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