variation on countif?
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I have a comment field where users were asked to list their past ISP's. I need a quick and easy way to count cells according to the ISP's they listed. For instance, one person may have listed aol, earthlink, and netzero all in one cell. I need a way to count the number of people that listed aol, the number of people that listed earthlink, and the number of people that listed netzero separately. The 'countif()' function only counts a cell if that person just listed aol or just listed earthlink but not if both are in one cell. Please help! (Otherwise I have to go through 3500 comment fields and manual count each ISP each person listed). Thank you! Liz |
=COUNTIF($A$2:$A$100,"*"&E2&"*") where E2 houses a condition/criterion like earthlink. Liz G Wrote: Hi, I have a comment field where users were asked to list their past ISP's. I need a quick and easy way to count cells according to the ISP's they listed. For instance, one person may have listed aol, earthlink, and netzero all in one cell. I need a way to count the number of people that listed aol, the number of people that listed earthlink, and the number of people that listed netzero separately. The 'countif()' function only counts a cell if that person just listed aol or just listed earthlink but not if both are in one cell. Please help! (Otherwise I have to go through 3500 comment fields and manual count each ISP each person listed). Thank you! Liz -- Aladin Akyurek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aladin Akyurek's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4165 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=274291 |
=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"*aol*")
and then add another for earthlink, etc. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Liz G" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a comment field where users were asked to list their past ISP's. I need a quick and easy way to count cells according to the ISP's they listed. For instance, one person may have listed aol, earthlink, and netzero all in one cell. I need a way to count the number of people that listed aol, the number of people that listed earthlink, and the number of people that listed netzero separately. The 'countif()' function only counts a cell if that person just listed aol or just listed earthlink but not if both are in one cell. Please help! (Otherwise I have to go through 3500 comment fields and manual count each ISP each person listed). Thank you! Liz |
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