That works great for no spaces. Thanks for the help.
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Tony S.


"T. Valko" wrote:

Try this:

H1 = BBDC3245 (no spaces)

=COUNTIF(D6:D1006,"*"&H1&"*")

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Tony S." wrote in message
...
II need help modifying a formula.
=COUNTIF($D$6:$D$1006,H1)
This returns the count for the value in H1 fine, but I need to modify it
so
it will still return the correct number if there are spaces or characters
before or after the value in H1.

Example:
If H1 contains "BBDC3245---" or a space exists before or after " BBDC3245
"
,I want to still count all the occurrences of that base number in col D6to
D1006. I guess I need kind of a wild card search?

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Tony S.