Last week we looked athow to count cells with text in Excel, meaning all cells with any text. When analyzing large chunks of information, you may also want to know how many cells contain specific text. This tutorial explains how to do it in a simple way. Count number of cells with spe...
The ISTEXT function checks if each cell in the specified range contains any text characters and returns an array of TRUE (cells with text) and FALSE (other cells) values. The double unary (--) or the multiplication operation coerces TRUE and FALSE into 1 and 0, respectively, producing an ...
It may be easy for you to count number of cells that contain only one condition, such as count all cells with specific text or font/fill color. However, do you know how to count cells with multiple conditions? For example, count number of cells that contain both specific text and font...
For example, I have a range of cells which contains some names, now, I want to count the number of name cells which beginning with the letter B, how could I solve it in Excel worksheet? Count cells beginning with specific letter with formulas ...
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Count Cells With Specific Text in Excel Do you want tocount the number of cellsthat contain any or specific text while ignoring all other cells? If so, Microsoft Excel has a dedicated function to help you do that. We'll show you how to use it. ...
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Let’s consider a dataset with 2 columns, where the first column shows theProduct IDand the second column shows a list ofBest Seller Books. We’ll use this inB4:C13cells for the first four methods. Method 1 – Count the Number of Words in a Cell with the LEN Function ...
To count cells containing specific texts “good” or “nice” write this formula: =SUMPRODUCT(--((ISNUMBER(SEARCH("good",A2:A8)) +ISNUMBER(SEARCH("nice",A2:A8)))>0)) You can see that there are four comments that contain either “good” or “nice.” ...
Count Blank Cells: The COUNTBLANK Function Count Nonblank Cells: The COUNTA Function Count Cells With Specific Criteria: The COUNTIF Function Excel provides various methods forcounting cellsincluding using the Find feature or a filter. But with functions, you can count exactly what you need. From...