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Terry Freedman Terry Freedman is offline
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Default wildcard in countif formula that uses cell references

Hi

I have a spreadsheet that contains a column which has several items in
each cell. I have created a column (A) on another sheet (in the same
workbook) that lists those items separately.
Is there any way to have a formula like this, that actually works?:

=COUNTIF('sheet2'!I:I,sheet1!A10)

At the moment, it only returns a non-zero value for those cells which
ONLY contain the item listed in A10. I have tried inserting a wildcard
(*) but it just returns an error.

Thanks!

Terry