wildcards in sumproduct functions
Thanks for supplying the ultimate response. Disappointly, sumproduct does
not have some of the capabilities that its simple sister, sumif does. I'll
use a cell reference as my search criteria instead of text.
"T. Valko" wrote:
SUMPRODUCT doesn't accept wildcards.
Try something like this to count cells in A1:A10 that might contain "ABC"
anywhere within the cell:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("ABC",A1:A10))))
Note that case is not factor. ABC is the same as abc.
If in your application case *is* a factor then replace SEARCH with FIND.
Using FIND, ABC is not the same as abc.
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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP
"K1" wrote in message
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I would prefer to use a wildcard for text criteria in sumproduct counting
and
adding equations. I have tried versions of "*ABC*" and get false values.
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