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The COUNTIF function in Excel can be used to compare a number to a range of cells. It counts the number of cells in the range that meet a specified criteria. For example, you could use COUNTIF to compare a number to a range of cells and return the number of cells that are greater than the number. The syntax for COUNTIF is COUNTIF(range, criteria) where range is the range of cells to be compared and criteria is the condition to be met.
You can use the following formula to count the number of cells in Excel that are greater than but less than some number:
=COUNTIFS(B:B,">15",B:B,"<25")
This particular formula counts the number of cells in column B where the value is greater than 15 but less than 25.
The following example shows how to use this formula in practice.
Example: COUNTIF Greater Than But Less Than
Suppose we have the following dataset in Excel that shows the number of points scored by basketball players on various teams:
We can use the following formula to count the number of cells in the column that have a value greater than 15 but less than 25:
=COUNTIFS(B2:B11,">15",B2:B11,"<25")
The following screenshot shows how to use this formula in practice:
We can see that a total of 3 cells in the Points column have a value greater than 15 but less than 25.
We can verify this is correct by manually identifying each of these cells in the data:
Note: You can find the complete documentation for the COUNTIFS function in Excel .