nandeshwar.info » wildcard http://nandeshwar.info Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:33:19 +0000 en hourly 1 Count Text in a Range http://nandeshwar.info/2009/04/24/count-text-in-a-range/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=count-text-in-a-range http://nandeshwar.info/2009/04/24/count-text-in-a-range/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:21:59 +0000 admin http://nandeshwar.info/?p=191 Counting text in a range is easy. For example, if you would like count how many times “text” is in a specified range (named data), you can write something like this:
=COUNTIF(data,"*text*")

This formula will give you the count of all the cells where Excel found “text” at any place.

But let’s say you want to count wildcard characters in a range, then you can write something like this:
=SUM(IF(NOT(ISERR(FIND("*",data))),1,0))

This formula should be entered as an array formula with Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Usually, wildcard can be “escaped” using a tilde (~), but the FIND function doesn’t understand wildcard characters like the SEARCH function does.

]]> http://nandeshwar.info/2009/04/24/count-text-in-a-range/feed/ 0 Count number of asterisk (*) http://nandeshwar.info/2005/02/10/count-number-of-asterisk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=count-number-of-asterisk http://nandeshwar.info/2005/02/10/count-number-of-asterisk/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:32:00 +0000 admin http://a7n9.wordpress.com/2005/02/10/count-number-of-asterix/ To count number of asterisk (*) in a column use this formula:
=COUNTIF(A1:A3, "=~*")

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