LostLady: We don't want you to be lost for too long. Use COUNTIF with
a 'wildcard' to find your search word in a range, as such:

In B1 place this formula:

=COUNTIF(D1:D600,"*TOFFEE*")
--- This will find all cases of ToFfeE in your range, such as "Toffee
Crisp", "Ground TOFFEE", "nuts toffee coated" will return 3

If you want to search for the contents of A1, then use:

=COUNTIF(D1:D600,"*"&A1&"*")

Does this work for you?

Bruce


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