I have a problem I want to count with multiply parameters.
ex.
tp403 e
lp602 p
tp601 e
tp403 p

I want to count when column 1 is tp... and column 2 is e. I can count, but
i have a problem with using wildcard *.

=SUMPRODUCT(--(LEFT(A1:A100,2)="tp"),--(B1:B100="e"))

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I have a problem I want to count with multiply parameters.
ex.
tp403 e
lp602 p
tp601 e
tp403 p

I want to count when column 1 is tp... and column 2 is e. I can count,
but
i have a problem with using wildcard *.

If you make an extra column which concatentate the two fields (maybe
with an unusual separator for safety), you can then use the COUNTIF
function on this.

tp403 e tp403|e
lp602 p lp602|p
tp601 e tp601|e
tp403 p tp403|p


=COUNTIF(C1:C4,"tp*|e") gives the value of 2


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