how to formula contain in a cell

Kent Chong

Kent Chong ✭✭

07/21/21 in Formulas and Functions

Hi, i am trying to formulate countif and contain in a formula but can't seem to do it right. i want to countif the cell in this column contains certain words because some columns would have two answers so the direct countif , value = xyz doesn't do the trick.

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Bassam Khalil ✭✭✭✭✭✭

07/21/21 Answer ✓

@Kent Chong
Could you please add a screenshot for your sheet after removing any sensitive data

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07/21/21 Answer ✓

@Kent Chong
Please try the following formula
=COUNTIFS(contacts:contacts, HAS(@cell, "XYZ"))

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@Kent Chong
Yes contact for column name, @cell leave it as is it because this to tell countifs to check cell by cell

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07/21/21 edited 07/21/21 Answer ✓

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Excellent, I will be happy to help you any time.

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Bassam Khalil ✭✭✭✭✭✭

07/21/21 Answer ✓

@Kent Chong
Could you please add a screenshot for your sheet after removing any sensitive data

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Kent Chong ✭✭

07/21/21

@Bassam Khalil is cases like the circled ones, how do you go about counting if i want to countif the cell contains xyz...

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Bassam Khalil ✭✭✭✭✭✭

07/21/21

@Kent Chong
Is this multiselect contacts column?

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Kent Chong ✭✭

07/21/21

@Bassam Khalil yes.

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07/21/21 Answer ✓

@Kent Chong
Please try the following formula
=COUNTIFS(contacts:contacts, HAS(@cell, "XYZ"))

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Kent Chong ✭✭

07/21/21

@Bassam Khalil for the contacts:contacts that's the column right? what should i put for @cell ?

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07/21/21 Answer ✓

@Kent Chong
Yes contact for column name, @cell leave it as is it because this to tell countifs to check cell by cell

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Kent Chong ✭✭

07/21/21 edited 07/21/21

it worked thank you :) !

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07/21/21 edited 07/21/21 Answer ✓

@Kent Chong
Excellent, I will be happy to help you any time.

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