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We get:
We can do the same for Old.
A neat little trick is to modify our formula. Let‟s say that we want to minimize the number of
areas in our spreadsheet that we would need to change if, say, we began calling “New” accounts
“NB” for “New Business.” We would need to change all the account type names, as well as the
search criteria in the formula. To make this easier, we can tell our formula to search for
something that is already typed into an existing cell. Since C10 contains the actual word we want
to search for, we will simply put C10 after the comma instead of the word “New.”
= countif(B2:B12, C10)
This tells Excel what cells to count, and it tells it what cell to find the search criteria in. We still
get the same result. Caution to the wind: if you modify the entry in C10, your result in D10 will
change accordingly (or it might produce an error).
Homework Problems - 1.3
1. A new policy prohibiting personal emails being sent is enforced by a telemarketing
company. A climate survey was then conducted to ask whether a randomly selected
number of employees agrees with the policy, and the duration of time they‟ve been with
the company. The results are below:
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