Counting occurrences of values in a multi-select dropdown list

emilyc9

I have looked through all of the answers for this topic, and still cannot find a solution that works for me. I have a sheet with a multi-select dropdown used to code responses. In another sheet, I want to count the number of times a certain value appears in any dropdown in the sheet column. Here is my formula:

=COUNTIFS({All Action Items Coding}, CONTAINS("Accountability", @cell))

{All Action Items Coding} is a column range in another sheet that contains the dropdown answers. I want to see if any cell in {All Action Items Coding} contains the string "Accountability". I have created the function based on answers to similar previous questions, but I get "#CONTACT EXPECTED" as an error.

Still don't understand what I am doing wrong…

Thanks so much,

Emily

Matt Lynn ACT

@emilyc9 I tested this on my end and your formula is ALMOST correct. Your "=countifs( " should just be a "countif("… no "s". You're only doing one if which is the contains.

Also if your getting a "#Contact Expected" error, it's because the column type where your formula is at is set to a contact column which cannot calculate a non contact value. Because it's a contact column it's literally expecting contact… not a count.