If I include a condition like =if(countif(X:X,A1)>0,"found","not found")
in an Excel formula, will Excel stop the countif
after it finds one matching record, or will it keep looking to find the total count in the whole column, return that count, and check if that value is >0
?
1 Answer
It works from the inside out. COUNTIF
returns a value, and then you are testing that value in the IF
. The IF
test is not part of the design of COUNTIF
, and COUNTIF
is not aware of what you are using the value for.
COUNTIF(X:X, A1) > 0
is enough=COUNTIF(X1:X10, ">0")
Will count all cells in X1:X10 that are greater than Zero. Hence, this will yield TRUE. Then you have this=IF(TRUE, TRUE, FALSE)