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I am wanting to create a formula to count how many times the word
Complete shows up in a column. How do I do this? Thanks!


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=countif(A:A,"Complete")

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I am wanting to create a formula to count how many times the word
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Assuming you're just looking for cells that contain "complete" and
nothing else....

=COUNTIF(A:A,"complete")


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Thanks! This is perfect!


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