How to do countif/contains formula

Kiley Murray

I have a sheet that has drop-down multi-select columns. I am trying to create a metrics sheet that shows the number of people that selected a specific drop-down menu item. For example:

Choose 3 favorite foods: burgers, pizza, sushi, pasta, chicken

They selected: Burgers Pizza Sushi

But I want to know how many people selected just Pizza in the favorite foods column.

Is there a way to do that?

Sam M.

Hi Kiley,

I did some testing:

You can use this formula:

=COUNTIF(Foods:Foods, CONTAINS("pizza", @cell))

What it needs:

=COUNTIF(put the range here, CONTAINS(what you want to search for here, @cell))

What’s in green in the image represents the formula that is in the cell above.

Hope it helps,

Sam

Kiley Murray

Thank you very much, Sam! 😀

Sam M.

You're Welcome!