You can also use the SUBTOTAL formula with your AutoFilter sort, as it
ignores any hidden rows...only counting the ones you've filtered out.....

=SUBTOTAL(2,YourRange)


Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Ingeniero1" wrote:


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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