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From: UniTeacher on 27 Apr 2010 16:35
I'm using Excel to record and track my students' attendance and assessment.
I would like to know how to get Excel to count up the number of sessions
students have attended class, so I can then get it to calculate the
percentage of classes they've been present.
I have been inputting attendance into columns by date, as P for Present and
A for Absent (with other codes such as M for Medical).
I need Excel to count up the number of Ps, but so far I can only get it to
count the number of cells containing numbers rather than letter data.

Can anyone help me?

Many thanks
From: Pete_UK on 27 Apr 2010 16:47
Try this:

=COUNTIF(C2:Y2,"P")

assuming your attendance data is in columns C to Y - adjust as
required.

This will count the number of Ps in that range.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Apr 27, 9:35 pm, UniTeacher <UniTeac...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I'm using Excel to record and track my students' attendance and assessment.
> I would like to know how to get Excel to count up the number of sessions
> students have attended class, so I can then get it to calculate the
> percentage of classes they've been present.
> I have been inputting attendance into columns by date, as P for Present and
> A for Absent (with other codes such as M for Medical).
> I need Excel to count up the number of Ps, but so far I can only get it to
> count the number of cells containing numbers rather than letter data.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Many thanks

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