Excel COUNTIFS with merged cell

Question

I have excel sheet with 3 subjects: Customer, Data and Product. I want to calculate how many product for each customer, and I used "COUNTIFS" formula, the problem is customer row is merged, so when I use "COUNTIFS" formula it's doesn't work. can you help me please with this. Excel sheet attached.

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Answer 1

Although it is strong recommended to avoid merged cells where you need calculation using formulas. It cause too many problems. Still you can apply some tricks to achieve your goals. For your case you can try below formula-

=COUNTIFS(INDIRECT("C"&MATCH($F2,$A:$A,0)&":C"&MATCH($F2,$A:$A,0)+5),G$1)