=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(FIND("EN",P1B))),--(P1F="B7"))

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HTH

Bob

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"sideshowjack" wrote in message
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Hi
I have excel '03, I have set the named columns to exact lengths (e.g
A2:A200), I can get SumPRODUCT to work with other sheets and formulae the
only problem I have is with it picking out a particular 2 letters from a
cell
Thanks

"Stefi" wrote:

Which Excel version do you use? In Excel2003 SUMPRODUCT doesn't handle
entire
columns, in Excel2007 does.
Regards,
Stefi


"sideshowjack" ezt írta:

Hello all
A B
Name code
EN A3
LL B4
EN C2
AB B3
EN,AB A3

column A values have a name of P1B and column B has values named P1F

I have the above data and Im trying to use it to count quantites of
each
instance of code for each 2 letter name, e.g EN has 2 instances of code
A3

Im using
=SUMPRODUCT((P1B="EN")*(P1F="B7"))

but I cant get the formula to count when there is more than one name in
a
cell (eg EN,AB. I have tried using "*EN*" but doesnt work

Please help!