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    Exclamation On Google Sheets trying to =Countifs a cell as criteria, not a value.

    =countifs('Pull'!$O2:$O,"Outbound",'Pull'!$V$2:$V,">="&M$1,'Pull'!$V$2:$V,"<="&N1,'Pull'!$V$2:$V,"<>")

    This is my formula. I want to count the cell that the text "outbound" is in, not the word 'outbound' but whenever I remove the "outbound" in the formula and replace it with "C4" which is the cell number/location, it thinks I mean the letter word value "C4". Any help here?

    Whenever I go online it just tells me to type in the location, but it doesn't let me!

    Really appreciate some help - many thanks.

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    Re: On Google Sheets trying to =Countifs a cell as criteria, not a value.

    Don't put C4 in quotes. So, NOT "C4", just C4.
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    Re: On Google Sheets trying to =Countifs a cell as criteria, not a value.

    You may need to surround "outbound" by wildcard characters if you want to include cells which contain that word among others (as your picture shows).

    Hope this helps.

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    Re: On Google Sheets trying to =Countifs a cell as criteria, not a value.

    @Pete: I don't think there is anything else in cell C4, though not easy to tell from the picture.

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    Re: On Google Sheets trying to =Countifs a cell as criteria, not a value.

    Yeah you were right it was just C4! Thanks!

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    Re: On Google Sheets trying to =Countifs a cell as criteria, not a value.

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