I have a column which can contain text as below :

Competency
Capability
Capability & Competency

I want to count all the cells which contains either competency / capability or both .

The count of the above should be 3 and not 4 .

If we do 2 separate count if and add it will give 4 but what i need it to count is only 3 . ( i.e no of unique rows which has any one of this input ) .

Can anyone help me how to do this .

Dear SVS, Good Afternoon.

The result 4 is CORRECT!

But if you can received a different result you must change the logic process.

Try to search for
"Competency"

"Capability"

"Capability & Competency" (the text must be equal at cells)


Tell me if it worked for you.
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i cannot understand the reply .

Yes i agree the count will be 4 .

I am using the formula as below :

countif(a1:a3,"capability")+countif(a1:a3,"compete ncy")

the above formula gives the result as 4 as it does the count separately for capability and separately for competency .

But i have only three rows .

As the no of rows is only 3, i want it to count 3 and not 4


Is there any way we can merge these formula so that it checks the rows only once and if any 1 condition satisifies , the row will be counted ..Otherwise it will not be counted .