Summing all cells containing the letter K

[Jan T.]

Hi.
I want to count all cells in a range that contains the letter K.

RON BLAIR KASPER HULK FRONT KIM

The example here would return 3 because 3 cells are containing a name that
has K in it.
I think I should put functions like SUMPRODUCT AND ISNUMBER AND MATCH,
but how do I put theese together?

Thanks in advance.

Mvh
Jan

 

[Bob Phillips]

=COUNTIF(A:A,"*K*")

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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[Jan T.]

That simple, eh?
Thanks a lot. That did the trick.

Jan

 

[Jan T.]

Thank you very much for helping.
But can you tell me, what does the two minus before (--ISNUMBER... do?

Jan

 

[David Biddulph]

The "double unary minus" converts a logical (TRUE or FALSE) value to a
number (1 or 0).

 

[Jan T.]

Aha, very interesting. I certainly did not know that.
Thank you so much for the answer. Have a nice day

Regards
Jan

 

[Brent]

I use the following formula: =COUNTIF(D55,"x")

In this case, I am counting the number of "x" between D5 and P5. You can
change the "x" to "K" if you want and identify the range you want to count,
up and down a column or as I have done in a row.

Brent