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How to count a text in a column?

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Ben
Ben ✭
edited 05/24/17 in Archived 2017 Posts

Hey there,

I'm trying to count a specific initials in a column with multi initials in each cell, but it doesn't work.

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Is that a limitation?

Thanks.

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  • Tony Coleman
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    I think you might be right that there is no direct way of doing it, I've attached a possible workaround though, using the Find feature to effectively get value to count from.  Hope this helps

     

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  • Ben
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    Hi Tony,

    Thank you for the replay, but unfortunately it won't work for what I need.

    I'm building a schedule calendar for my team, I have 5 columns: Week day name,  Date, Morning, Day and Night. In each shift there are more than 2 people (in each cell). See the picture.

    I need to count each individual person, how many shifts he had in the Morning, Day and Night on different periods (week, month).

     

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