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Hi all,
I'm working on a survey response, that includes around 10000 sets of replies to q's. Most of these are yes/no, tickbox replies which I can analyse without a problem...
However - some of the questions are qualitative, with one in particular leaving the respondent to write what their favourite holiday destination is. As a set list of places wasn't given as an option, there are hundreds of different types of reply.
Does anyone know how to count the number of instances of a word in Excel - so for eg the number of times Paris appears etc....
The only option I can think of is to literally write a list of places, and then go through the responses one by one adding them up... but this will take ages....
Any help appreciated!
S
I'm working on a survey response, that includes around 10000 sets of replies to q's. Most of these are yes/no, tickbox replies which I can analyse without a problem...
However - some of the questions are qualitative, with one in particular leaving the respondent to write what their favourite holiday destination is. As a set list of places wasn't given as an option, there are hundreds of different types of reply.
Does anyone know how to count the number of instances of a word in Excel - so for eg the number of times Paris appears etc....
The only option I can think of is to literally write a list of places, and then go through the responses one by one adding them up... but this will take ages....
Any help appreciated!
S
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Edit: I am using Excel 2007 w/ windows XP
I have 6 sheets to count and all the names are in column A (from A1:A100) on each sheet. The names are not in a particular order.
On sheet 7 I want to have a cell beside each persons name that counts the number of times their name appeared on the other 6 sheets.
For example Sheet 7 (called total) would have
Joe 5 (where 5 is the outcome of the formula I'm looking for to count all the times "Joe" appears on sheets 1-6).
I have it counting per sheet with =COUNTIF(A1:A130,"name") but this is not quite what I am looking for.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Edit: I am using Excel 2007 w/ windows XP
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Fair - Poor. We want to assign a value to each, 5 for Excellent, 4 for Very
Good and so on, so that when a response is selected from a drop-down, it's
value appears in a separate cell (so that we can calculate a total and
average score from the selections).
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B
it as a drop-down list, you can select a name from the drop-down and it's
corresponding value will be added to separate cell? Basically, I have survey
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Fair - Poor. We want to assign a value to each, 5 for Excellent, 4 for Very
Good and so on, so that when a response is selected from a drop-down, it's
value appears in a separate cell (so that we can calculate a total and
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B
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Hi there,
I have a spreadsheet with some cells setup with a drop-down list containing
Y, N or N/A
This is being used on a TabletPC but if I make a mistake or need to change
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list.
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Y, N or N/A
This is being used on a TabletPC but if I make a mistake or need to change
back to a blank field I have to invoke the soft keyboard, activate the cell
and hit backspace then close the soft keyboard - quite a long-winded
procedure just to change an incorrect choice!
What I would like to do is add a blank to the list so if I have to revert
back to a blank I can just use the stylus to choose a blank from the chooser
list.
How do I add the option of inputting a blank from the Data Validation List
bearing in mind I am using the Data Validation Source box for entering my
choices directly and not specifying a range of cells?
I have tried adding "" and even a space to no avail.
Although not a betting man I would wager there is a simple 'fix' for this
but things are only simple if you know how in the first instance! ;^)
--
Thanks & regards,
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Where am I going wrong....
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This is the code ive used.
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Nick
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that cell to change its color to "green." And if later I change the "word" to
another from the drop down list, it will change it's color to a specified
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If a certain "word" is used from the drop down list I want the background of
that cell to change its color to "green." And if later I change the "word" to
another from the drop down list, it will change it's color to a specified
color.
The drop down list that I use was created from cells that have the colors
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=HYPERLINK(A1, "Goto Link")
The solution directly above provides exactly what I am looking for
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I have created a drop down list and linked each one of them to a
specific worksheet. When I select them individually they link to
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list I receive the following error when I select the Hyperlink in
cell B1 as directed above.
"Cannot open the specified file"
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Bob
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I have created a drop down list and linked each one of them to a
specific worksheet. When I select them individually they link to
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list I receive the following error when I select the Hyperlink in
cell B1 as directed above.
"Cannot open the specified file"
Any thoughts?
Bob
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I have included an attachment to help (a picture is worth a thousand words).
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paste
and paste special are "grayed out". This is true whether you right-click the
mouse, go to the edit menu, or use control keys. This occurs with any data
type and the most simple workbooks. I have seen some suggestions here but
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paste will work, but there is no paste special option. Any help would be
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ML
I'd like to be able to copy data from a list of websites into Excel. It would take too long to navigate to do an Excel web query for each site, so is it possible to write a macro that could do that?
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for example if you have values of
1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1
how to count number of occurances where value of 1 is 3 consecutive times? Obviously answer is 3 in this instance but is there an excel formula to count/sum this?
Thanks in advance
1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1
how to count number of occurances where value of 1 is 3 consecutive times? Obviously answer is 3 in this instance but is there an excel formula to count/sum this?
Thanks in advance