counting text strings

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Keith Rathband

This is probably really simple - but how can i count how many cells in colum
contain a certian text varible ?
 
D

Dave Peterson

=countif(a:a,"sometext")
will count the number of cells in column A that are equal to "sometext"

=countif(a:a,"*sometext*")
will count the number of cells in column A that contain "sometext"
 

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