I'm trying to count a group of people in column 1 and 2, but I don't want to double count them.

For example, I want to count David on Column 1 or 2, but if David is on both columns 1 and 2, I don't want it to count David twice only once. How do I do that? I've used the formula below but it counted 141 instead of 101. Not sure what I am missing but I'd appreciate your help!

COUNTIFS({LCS}, OR(@cell = "name", @cell = "name", @cell = "name", @cell = "name", @cell = "name"), {LCO}, OR(@cell <> "name", @cell <> "name", @cell <> "name", @cell <> "name", @cell <> "name", ISBLANK(@cell))) + COUNTIF({LCO}, OR(@cell = "name", @cell = "name", @cell = "name", @cell = "name", @cell = "name"))

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  • Paul Newcome
    Paul Newcome ✭✭✭✭✭✭
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    The idea is to count column 1 then count column 2 but add in the criteria of column 1 not containing those names.


    =COUNTIFS({Column 1}, OR(@cell = "John", @cell = "Amy"))

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    COUNTIFS({Column 2}, OR(@cell = "John", @cell = "Amy"), {Column 1}, AND(@cell <> "John", @cell <> "Amy"))

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