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countif criteria only one word of few doesn't work
I am trying to use countif where the criteria in some cases will be one word from a cell that has several words in it. I'm getting a total count of 0 in these instances. Is there a way to set the criteria to work this way or perhaps a different counting function? Thanks! -- dcd123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcd123's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25396 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397377 |
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Say you're looking for "Tom" in Column E:
=COUNTIF(E1:E25,"*Tom*") -- HTH, RD ============================================== Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ============================================== "dcd123" wrote in message ... I am trying to use countif where the criteria in some cases will be one word from a cell that has several words in it. I'm getting a total count of 0 in these instances. Is there a way to set the criteria to work this way or perhaps a different counting function? Thanks! -- dcd123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcd123's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25396 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397377 |
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Hi!
Try this: =COUNTIF(A1:A100,"*whatever*") Biff "dcd123" wrote in message ... I am trying to use countif where the criteria in some cases will be one word from a cell that has several words in it. I'm getting a total count of 0 in these instances. Is there a way to set the criteria to work this way or perhaps a different counting function? Thanks! -- dcd123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcd123's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25396 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397377 |
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Thank you very much. It worked! I knew there must be a way and I tried a couple of variations of this suggestion, I just didn't put them together. Thanks again! -- dcd123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcd123's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25396 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397377 |
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