Thankyou, that solved it.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

I did read your post and that is why I used Find, so I cater for contains.

It might be a case problem, try changing FIND to SEARCH.

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Bob

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"Fiona" wrote in message
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Sorry Bob, I've been looking at it again and the problem is that in my
previous formula I used the 'contains' feature ("*"&A10&"*") but with your
formula the match needs to be exact. I've tried to enter the 'contains'
bit
but this does not give the correct result.

I want to count D5:D5000 if it contains A10.

Thanks again for your help

Fiona
:)

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Care to elucidate, it worked in my test.

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Bob

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"Fiona" wrote in message
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Thanks Bob but that didn't seem to work

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Fiona,

Try this

=COUNT(IF(Page1!$J$5:$J$10000=$H$1,IF(ISNUMBER(FIN D(A10,Page1!$D$5:$D$5000)),1)))

still array entered.

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HTH

Bob

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"Fiona" wrote in message
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Hi
I'm trying to get the following formula to work:
COUNT(IF(Page1!$J$5:$J$10000,$H$1,IF(Page1!$D$5:$D $5000,"*"&A10&"*",0)))

But it isn't. I'm trying to count the cells on page 1 that have H
in
coloumn J, but also contain A10 in coloumn D.

I've done th {} at each end but it doeasn't work.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
Fiona