COUNTIF(S) where items are NOT equal to more than one value

Diana Chamberlain

Hello! I am trying to create a formula which counts all items that are NOT assigned to a list of about 8 people. These will be totaled into an "Other" field.

Example: PMs include Bob, Sarah, Dee, David, and George. I have counts for how many projects are assigned to each of these people, no problem. Then I have a bunch of projects assigned to other people... instead of making individual counts for these, I'd like to group them into a total labeled "other." How can I count all fields which are NOT the PMs listed above?

I've done quite a bit of searching on this but for some reason am coming up dry, everything I have tried is not working.

Thanks!

Paul Newcome

Try something along the lines of ...

=COUNTIFS([Assigned To]:[Assigned To], AND(FIND("Bob", @cell) = 0, FIND("Sarah", @cell) = 0, FIND("David", @cell) = 0, FIND("George", @cell) = 0))

Paul Newcome

Yes. You can use a NOT(ISBLANK(@cell))

You can also use the below to save a few keystrokes and cut out some of those pesky parenthesis...

<> ""

<> means "Not equal to" and "" is "blank".

Paul Newcome

Try something along the lines of ...

=COUNTIFS([Assigned To]:[Assigned To], AND(FIND("Bob", @cell) = 0, FIND("Sarah", @cell) = 0, FIND("David", @cell) = 0, FIND("George", @cell) = 0))

Diana Chamberlain

Thank you! This worked, for the most part - however it's including blanks. Is there a way for me to exclude blanks? (Been doing some more searching and once again, nothing super clear coming up, but will continue to work on it!)

Diana Chamberlain

I think I figured the "blank" part out! Added the following to the end: [Range]:[Range], NOT(ISBLANK(@cell))

Paul Newcome

Yes. You can use a NOT(ISBLANK(@cell))

You can also use the below to save a few keystrokes and cut out some of those pesky parenthesis...

<> ""

<> means "Not equal to" and "" is "blank".