COUNTIFS with ISNUMBER and multiple criteria

Question

I'm trying to count if the following range is "Y" or "S" and contains numbers. I'm trying to exclude cells beginning with "_PVxxxxx_" .

I cant use

COUNTIFS($A:$A,">0",$B:$B,"Y") + COUNTIFS($A:$A,">0",$B:$B,"S")

because the formula considers "_PVxxxxx_" to be more than 0 and includes them in the calculation.

Can anybody help? Thanks alot!

Answer 1

The function SUMPRODUCT is quite versatile, typically more flexible for testing than COUNTIFS and SUMIFS .

It should do the trick (see eg https://stackoverflow.com/a/27935006/2707864 or https://stackoverflow.com/a/30854706/2707864 ) with

=SUMPRODUCT(($A:$A>0)*($B:$B="Y")*(ISNUMBER($A:$A))+...

This works, but I am not sure that you need the part ($A:$A>0)* according to the sample you posted (it doesn't hurt anyway).

PS: If you insist on using COUNTIFS you could use a helper column that uses ISNUMBER and gives, eg, a suitable numeric result (>0 for numeric data, <0 otherwise). Then you would refer to that column within COUNTIFS .