data I pull from a website and then download it into Excel.

Ok, those are probably html   non breaking spaces. They are not
standard char 32 spaces. TRIM and CLEAN won't work on them.

I do a lot of copy/pasting from the web and I use a macro to clean all that
html junk from the data.

See this:

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Mike" wrote in message
...
Thanks T. Valko and Elkar.

As for replacing the * with a space, I tried that previously and it did
not
work.
The Trim approach works great with test data that I enter but not with the
data I pull from a website and then download it into Excel.

There seems to be something when I download the data it is putting a Null
character as opposed to a space. The reason I say that is because even
when
I use Trim by itself I still get incorrect results.

I believe both ways you two provided will work but looks like I need to
look
at the source data I am downloading. I believe that is causing the errors.

Let me look some more and I will let you know.

Thanks to both of you for your help.....
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Mike


"Elkar" wrote:

See if this works:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(TRIM('1208ATMDispatches'!$B$10:$B$63)="Branch"))

HTH
Elkar


"Mike" wrote:

I have a column of data that contains text values such as "Branch" and
"Branch Remote". I need to count the occurrances for each but my
Branch
count is including Branch Remote. The countif statements are

=COUNTIF('1208ATMDispatches'!$B$10:$B$63,"Branch*" )

=COUNTIF('1208ATMDispatches'!$B$10:$B$63,"Branch Remote*")

I am using the * because the source data has a space after Branch and
also
after Branch Remote.

How can I do an exact match using the countif statement.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike