You changed Bob's code.

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("clean",A1:A5))),--(B1:B5=1))

worked fine. Notice the additional double minus signs and parentheses.

The -- changes booleans (true/falses) to 1's and 0's.

Which =sumproduct() really likes.

Margaret wrote:

The numbers in column B are truly numbers. I think the
issues lies with the fact that in column A, I am not
looking for the exact value "Clean" but rather the
string "clean", where I want to match any cell containing
the text "clean" anywhere in the cell (including Clean,
cleaning, cleaned, She cleaned, etc.). If I
substitute "*clean*" in the formula it doesn't work,
either.

My formula for the example below was (ignore any line
wrapping)

=SUMPRODUCT((ISNUMBER(SEARCH("clean",A1:A5))),B1:B 5=1)

-----Original Message-----
What's in column B?

Are the values truly numbers or are they text that look
like numbers.

If you put a formula like:

=isnumber(b13)
where b13 looks like a 1 and A13 has "Clean" in it, what
do you get back?

I'm guessing that either the data isn't what you expect
or the formula you used
isn't correct.

If I guessed wrong about the data, maybe you should post
the formula you used.

(Bob's formula worked ok for me.)

Margaret wrote:

This returned a value of "0" (which is not correct).
Any
thoughts?

-----Original Message-----
=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("clean",A1:A100))), --
(B1:B100=1))

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HTH

RP
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"Margaret" wrote
in message
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I need to count the number of rows where cell A
includes
a specific text string AND cell B equals a specific
number. I am having trouble finding a working
solution.

Example

Column A Column B
Jim cleaned 1
Bob paints 1
Cleanup, Sue's 2
Jim swept 1
Cleaning by Joe 1

I want to count the rows where Column A contains the
text "clean" AND the value in Column B is 1. Correct
answer from example above would be 2.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


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Dave Peterson
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Dave Peterson