Hi!

Try this:

A1 = 3rd of 8
A2 = 2nd of 8
A3 = 1st of 6
A4 = 3rd of 5
A5 = 3rd of 11

C1 = 1st
C2 = 2nd
C3 = 3rd

Formula in D1 copied down:

=COUNTIF(A$1:A$5,C1&"*")

Biff

"Bob Smith" wrote in message
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Hi folks,

I'm tracking game data for a few players and am running into a problem. On
doing a web query, column D will show the following data below. Here are
four cells of those 50. I'm trying to count the # of 1st, # of 2nd & # of
3rds.

I've used countif, count a, and several other formulas and get a 0 result.

I know it's probably a very simple formula, but I'm stumped.

3rd of 8
2nd of 8
1st of 6
3rd of 5
3rd of 11


Thanks for any help.

Thanks, Bob