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    Counting text in two columns

    Morning,

    i have data in columns a and b in C i want to count where grant occurs anywhere in column a and it says North East in column b. thank you for your help
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    Re: Counting text in two columns

    with a pivot table.

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    Re: Counting text in two columns

    ... or with a formula

    =COUNTIFS(A:A,"=*grant*",B:B,"=North East")
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    Re: Counting text in two columns

    =SUMPRODUCT(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("grant",A1:A21))*(B1:B21="North East"))
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    Re: Counting text in two columns

    Sorted, thank you all for your assistance

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    Re: Counting text in two columns

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