Was messing with a spreadsheet and openoffice and came across something
I thought of as really odd.  It certainly could be my coding but I think
I am doing things right


I have a list of fruit (any kind of list will do) and some
classification schmata (in this case if the fruit is citrus as noted by
the c besides them in column A.  The third column selects the fruit if
it is a citrus (as noted by column A)



           apples
c          oranges      oranges
           blueberry
           pomegranite
           kiwi
c          grapefruit   grapefruit
c          lemon        lemon
c          lime         lime
           cranberry
           blackberry
           raspberry



so the formula in column 3 looks like
=IF(A1="c";B1;"")

but when I counted column c I came up with 11, not the 4 I expected.
=counta(c1;c11)  Am I doing something wrong or is this normal?

Mind you, what I really want is for column d to say 

oranges
grapefruit
lemon
lime

starting in cell d1 with no spaces between the fruit.

-- 
Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss
University of Arkansas at Monticello
http://cabanisspc.uamont.edu

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