Hi Howard,

Am Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:17:42 -0700 (PDT) schrieb :

Here is a sample of entries for Data1. With 4 in the drop down cell P1 I would expect to return the value 5. =COUNTIF(Data1,P1) returns 0 (zero).

123456789 456 234
123 4 479
5 149 289

try:
=COUNT(SEARCH(P1,Data))
and enter the array formula with CTRL+Shift+Enter

In your example I see 6 times the 4


Regards
Claus Busch
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