I have a business in which I need to sum the number of deliveries received on
the various days of each month. Sometimes item X is delivered and sometimes
item Y. To sum the deliveries of item X received in, say, January, I use the
formula =COUNTIF(A1:A31,"*X*") [where cells A1 to A31 cover the 31 days of
the month] and, for item Y, =COUNTIF(A1:A31,"*Y*"). If I receive deliveries
of both X and Y on the same day there is no problem €“ I can enter both X and
Y in a cell and those two formulas will still work. However, occasionally I
receive two deliveries per day of item X. But if I enter two Xs in the same
cell, Excel treats it as only one. How do I get the program to count them
both?