COUNTIF: seems easy but....

[Laurent]

Hello,

how can I use the countif function to count the number of star (*) in a
range ?

If I do =COUNTIF(B1:B8;"=*"), I have the number of cells because * is
understood as a wild card...

Thanks in advance

Laurent

 

[KL]

if you want the number of cells that contain * then:

=COUNTIF(B1:B8,"=*~**")

if you want the number of * in all cells then:

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(B1:B8)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B1:B8,"*","")))

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