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chemisecure 2 Posts Wednesday March 30, 2016Registration date March 30, 2016 Last seen - Mar 30, 2016 at 12:58 PM - Latest reply: RayH

- Mar 30, 2016 at 10:01 PM

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I am using Microsoft Office 2016, and I am trying to make an autimated numerical count of all cells which contains a certain phrase for a table. An example is "Public Health"; I want to have something similar to the following:

=COUNT(CONTAIN(D:D,"Public Health))

Simply setting an equivalence to "Public Health" will not suffice, as while some of the cells contain only the phrase, still other cells contain something similar to "Energy, Public Health". How would I go about doing this in Excel 2016?

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RayH - Mar 30, 2016 at 04:07 PM

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Hi Chemisecure
Give this a try:

=COUNT(FIND("Public Health",D:D,1))

Be sure to enter this with Ctrl-Shift-Enter.

It will look like this afterwards:

={COUNT(FIND("Public Health",D:D,1))}

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chemisecure 2 Posts Wednesday March 30, 2016Registration date March 30, 2016 Last seen - Mar 30, 2016 at 04:55 PM

This worked, thank you!

Also, minor edit to your reply, it's display (at least in Excel 2016) after entering with Ctrl-Shift-Enter has the open bracket before the equals sign, not after.

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RayH - Mar 30, 2016 at 10:01 PM

Glad it worked. The error was just a typo on my part.