another view:
In Cell H1 enter =COUNTIF($D$1:$D$5,A1) and copy down to H5, then sum Col
H.
HTH
Jmay


"Frank Kabel" wrote in message
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Hi
try
=COUNTIF(A1:A5,"Andy")+COUNTIF(D1:D5,"Andy")

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Molochi wrote:
Hi

I'm setting up a spreadsheet and will have two columns of text... so
for instance columns A1:A5 could contain

Andy
Bob
Chris
Dave
Eddie

while columns D1:D5 could contain
Andy
Bill
Colin
Dave
Eric

What I want to do is find a way of doing a count of the number of
occurrences a name appears across BOTH columns. I can do it down a
single column with a Pivotable, but is there an easy way to do it
down multiple columns?