Thankfully, Microsoft Excel's COUNTIF formula swoops in to save the day. It lets you count cells based on specific text or conditions, turning your spreadsheet chaos into organized data magic.

The COUNTIFS function will search through cell locations in multiple ranges and return a count of "1" for every time all the ranges meet your criteria in the same cell location.

Excel's COUNTIFS() function is flexible enough to handle different ranges and data types.

Using Excel's COUNTIFS () function, you can quickly count records that fall between two dates. Many records include a date stamp of some sort. Usually the date marks an event or the input date.