Count IF issues

[burnsie]

Hello.

On one sheet I have a list of names and personal details. Columns E in that sheet is titled "location" and, surprisingly, lists the locations that a person (a person per row) works.

On another sheet I want to analyse this data.

I have 3 columns
A = locations. This is sourced via “='Personal Information'!E4” and goes down to row 359
B = I’ve inputted all the possible locations.
C= “=COUNTIF($A$3:$A$359,B3)”
I am wanting column C to count up the number of times that a certain word (next to it in column B) appears in column A.

A few of these work, but there are some random error that I cant work out why. I.e. One of my options is Sheffield, yet it can only find x3 “Sheffield’s”, despite there being many more. Sheffield is spelt correctly. Even if I search for “Sheffield” (Ctrl F) on that sheet it only find x3 despite there being many more.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

B

[TMS]

Chances are that there may be one or more trailing spaces.

If you use Autofilter, try the "Contains" option rather than "Equals".

Then, for each one that it lists, press F2 and see if there are any additional characters.


Regards, TMS


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[burnsie]

it was a long job, but seems to found most of the errors.

thanks