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Find unique matches for multiple criteria within a row of cells

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    Find unique matches for multiple criteria within a row of cells

    I have a single large (~400k) row of job titles and I need to find the unique number of matches for multiple "contain" queries.
    Example, for the row below:

    Director IT
    VP Sales
    VP Operations
    Technology Analyst
    Database Manager
    Compliance Analyst
    Director of Security
    Chief Technology Officer
    Chief Information Security Officer

    I ran two COUNTIFs-
    1. COUNTIF(A:A,"*technology*"), which returns 2 matches.
    2. COUNTIF(A:A,"*officer*"), which returns 2 matches.

    The problem is I need UNIQUE matches of these 2 (and many more criteria). So I need to somehow combine the 2 formulas above to return only unique results, which in this example would be 2 (there is one record with both "officer" and "technology", which I do not want to count twice).

    Any ideas? (besides buying Access)
    Thanks in advance!

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    Re: Find unique matches for multiple criteria within a row of cells

    Did you try pivot table for this purpose?
    Notice my main language is not English.

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