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I have cells with dates that are formatted in different ways (and too messy to re-format, also lots of data) but if I want to count how many dates are in October, for example, I was hoping to do a COUNTIF() or COUNTA(FILTER()) but I'm not sure how to search the cell for the partial string 10/ (this is the only unique combination of characters that I can think of that would ID only the correct month).
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Select a blank cell to store the counting result, write the formula =COUNTIF(A1:A16,"*Anne*") into it, and press the Enter key (A1:A16 is the range to count cells, and Anne is the partial string).
Type =COUNTIF( in the cell where you want to see the count. Select the range where you want to search for the text. Type a comma to go to the next argument and then type the text that should be in the cells you want to count.
If you want to learn how to count text in Excel, you need to use function COUNTIF with the criteria defined using wildcard *, with the formula: =COUNTIF(range;"*") . Range is defined cell range where you want to count the text in Excel and wildcard * is criteria for all text occurrences in the defined range.
You can use the COUNTIFS function in Excel to count cells in a single range with a single condition as well as in multiple ranges with multiple conditions. If the latter, only those cells that meet all of the specified conditions are counted.
You can use * wild character, the wild character before the value means anything ending with and at the end means anything starting with...
=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"*10/*") - Has the text 10/ anywhere in the cell
=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"*"&B1&"*") - Cell B1 has the finding text
=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"10/*") - Has the text 10/ at start
=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"*10/") - Has the text 10/ at end
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