With wildcards:

=COUNTIF(E1:E100,"*pass*")

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Gary''s Student - gsnu200826


"Venkatesh V" wrote:

Hi,

how to count number of "partial string" in a range of column

for ex: column E contains text as "Pass", "pass on 20/01/08", "issue Passed
on "21", "fail".

now, i wanted the count which searches the cell values that contains the
word "pass" (case insensitive)".

here, in this case the count is 3 (answer).

how to do it?

I tried COUNTA and DCOUNTA. it didnt work

Thanks,
Venkat