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Default How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns "

Bob Philips is wrong, the COUNTIF() function counts the matching text in the
cell range including those in formulas.
I had a column with the same formula in each cell. The cell returned blank
or "*". The countif() function gave 214 which was the number of cells
containing the formula! - there were only 46 asterisks displayed from the
formulas.