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Default how to count if cell "contains" a word

On Jul 11, 11:20*pm, cjlatta
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(Using Excel2003/WinXP) *I am trying to count the number of times 2 values
are in a cell. *The string may contain the values ",abcd, abcf," or ",abcf,
abcd," *The other part that's stumping me is the string could be ",abcd,
abcf, abcg," (or longer). *I am wanting to know the number of times the cell
contains "abcd" and "abcf" no matter what order it's in. *I will try to show
an example below:

* Values
1,abcd,
2 ,abcd, abcf,
3 ,abcd, abcf, abcg,
4 ,abcd, abcg,
5 ,abcf, abcd,

I would want to include cell 2, cell 3, and cell 5 in my count, but not 1 or
4. *Can I do this?
Any help greatly appreciated.


If you don't mind having another column and assuming the 'words' are
in B1, B2, etc, in C1 put =FIND("abcd",B1)*FIND("abcf",B1) and copy
down. Then at the bottom of column C, assuming 10 rows, put
=COUNTIF(C1:C10,"0").