If you want to count them after filtering, take a look at SUBTOTAL in Help,
it will do what you want.

If you want to count them without filtering, try

=COUNTIF(B:B,"*violin*")

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I have 2700 rows where one of the columns is a description of an
instrument. As you can imagine, the sky is the limit with the way the
descriptions are written.

Using the Auto-Filter feature, I can filter the cells in this column
according to whether they contain or not-contain any text I choose. But
then I have to count the rows returned.

What I am looking for is to count the cells that contain a word or
combination of words within a longer string of text. Is there a way to
use COUNTIF based on any of the contents of a cell?

Thanks!

Alex


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