COUNTIFS and CONTAINS - Multiple Criteria

I have a formula that I am using across worksheets that is working well. However, was just informed that I will need to account for multiple Project Specialists on one project and cannot get the COUNTIFS & CONTAINS to work for me.

My current formula is:

=COUNTIFS({TAC Sourcing Project Tracker - PROJECT SPECIALIST}, $[Primary Column]@row, {TAC Sourcing Project Tracker - STATUS}, <>"Completed", {TAC Sourcing Project Tracker - STATUS Canceled}, <>"Canceled", {TAC Sourcing Project Tracker - BUSINESS}, "Retail")

I am counting how many "Retail" projects a Project Specialist is working on that are active...so drop down status is not "Completed" and not "Canceled". However, I need to be able to use the CONTAINS formula to count projects where there is more than one Project Specialist in the "Project Tracker - PROJECT SPECIALIST" reference. I want to use the CONTAINS formula on the first part of the formula for the $[Primary Column]@row reference.

The field for Project Specialist is a Contact List but I have not had any issues with the COUNTIFS only formula.

Thanks in advance for your help!!

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Jeff Reisman

@Paula M. If your PROJECT SPECIALIST column is a multi-select Contact column, try using the HAS function instead of CONTAINS.

Note: The Help page for the HAS function is terrible. I submitted a ticket for the page to be fixed but it hasn't been fixed yet. I've attached my submitted revisions here.

Problems with HAS help page.docx

=COUNTIFS({TAC Sourcing Project Tracker - PROJECT SPECIALIST}, HAS(@cell, [Primary Column]@row), {TAC Sourcing Project Tracker - STATUS}, <>"Completed", {TAC Sourcing Project Tracker - STATUS Canceled}, <>"Canceled", {TAC Sourcing Project Tracker - BUSINESS}, "Retail")

Paula M.

Thank you so much Jeff!

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