I have 2700 rows where one of the columns is a description of an
instrument. As you can imagine, the sky is the limit with the way the
descriptions are written.

Using the Auto-Filter feature, I can filter the cells in this column
according to whether they contain or not-contain any text I choose. But
then I have to count the rows returned.

What I am looking for is to count the cells that contain a word or
combination of words within a longer string of text. Is there a way to
use COUNTIF based on any of the contents of a cell?

Thanks!

Alex


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In a cell somewhere on your sheet place:
=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(C2:C2700)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(C2:C2700,I2,"")))/LEN(I2)

I2 is the cell to enter text for searching column C (Modify as needed)

HTH
GerryK

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I have 2700 rows where one of the columns is a description of an
instrument. As you can imagine, the sky is the limit with the way the
descriptions are written.

Using the Auto-Filter feature, I can filter the cells in this column
according to whether they contain or not-contain any text I choose. But
then I have to count the rows returned.

What I am looking for is to count the cells that contain a word or
combination of words within a longer string of text. Is there a way to
use COUNTIF based on any of the contents of a cell?

Thanks!

Alex


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Alex

If you're already using AutoFilter, you can probably use this version
of the SUBTOTAL function:

With a data list in Cells A5:A1000

A2: =SUBTOTAL(3,A5:A1000)-1
The minus 1 is to remove the Header count.

After filtering, the formula will return the count of the un-hidden
records.


Other options for the first argument of the the SUBTOTAL function:
Function_Num Function
1 AVERAGE
2 COUNT
3 COUNTA
4 MAX
5 MIN
6 PRODUCT
7 STDEV
8 STDEVP
9 SUM
10 VAR
11 VARP

Does that help?

Regards,
Ron


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If you want to count them after filtering, take a look at SUBTOTAL in Help,
it will do what you want.

If you want to count them without filtering, try

=COUNTIF(B:B,"*violin*")

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I have 2700 rows where one of the columns is a description of an
instrument. As you can imagine, the sky is the limit with the way the
descriptions are written.

Using the Auto-Filter feature, I can filter the cells in this column
according to whether they contain or not-contain any text I choose. But
then I have to count the rows returned.

What I am looking for is to count the cells that contain a word or
combination of words within a longer string of text. Is there a way to
use COUNTIF based on any of the contents of a cell?

Thanks!

Alex


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You can also use the SUBTOTAL formula with your AutoFilter sort, as it
ignores any hidden rows...only counting the ones you've filtered out.....

=SUBTOTAL(2,YourRange)


Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



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I have 2700 rows where one of the columns is a description of an
instrument. As you can imagine, the sky is the limit with the way the
descriptions are written.

Using the Auto-Filter feature, I can filter the cells in this column
according to whether they contain or not-contain any text I choose. But
then I have to count the rows returned.

What I am looking for is to count the cells that contain a word or
combination of words within a longer string of text. Is there a way to
use COUNTIF based on any of the contents of a cell?

Thanks!

Alex


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Timely good replies!

This one works best for what I need.
=COUNTIF(B:B,"*violin*") / Bob P.

It even works entering (within asterisks) what I want to search in
another cell.
=COUNTIF(B:B,M2)
and M2 will have *search text*

I entered 10 *search text* in M2:M11 and got a list of the occurrences
for those 10.

Thanks!!


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