Count yes and no answers in a column

Question

I have an excel file with a few columns. The columns have yes/no answers. I would like to know the function to count all yes and no answers.

Thanks for helping an excel rookie.

Answer 1

Use COUNTIF.

So if you have a column C with values 1 through 5 as follows:

1 - Yes
2 - No
3 - Yes
4 - No
5 - Yes

Formula would read:

=COUNTIF(C1:C5,"Yes")

This would output a result of 3.