Another one:

=COUNTIF(B2:B21,"~*Bike")

* is the wildcard for any set of characters
? is the wildcard for a single character
~ is the character that tells excel that you want to treat the next character as
a real asterisk, a real question mark or even a real tilde:

=COUNTIF(B2:B21,"~*Bike")
=COUNTIF(B2:B21,"~?Bike")
=COUNTIF(B2:B21,"~~Bike")



Steven wrote:

Don

Thanks for the quick response, see below formula should return 10 as the
count but returns 20.

Steven

1070175 *Bike
1070177 *Bike
1070179 *Bike
1070182 *Bike
1070183 *Bike
1070188 *Bike
1070191 *Bike
1070192 *Bike
1070193 *Bike
1070194 *Bike
1070195 Bike
1070196 Bike
1070197 Bike
1070198 Bike
1070199 Bike
1070201 Bike
1070202 Bike
1070203 Bike
1070204 Bike
1070205 Bike

=COUNTIF(B2:B21,"*Bike")

"Don Guillett" wrote:

My testing did not produce that result. Post your data and formula

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"Steven" wrote in message
...
From a database one of the dataset contains a vehicle type for example
pushbike, small van etc. however if the booking is made online it precede
the
vehicle type with an * meaning if I countif, sumif pushbike it counts both
types of records.



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Dave Peterson