Assistance Needed With Determining Which Functions To Use!

ninja_turtle

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Good Afternoon All,

I generally have been able to learn a lot from this forum and get all my questions answered just from reading other threads. However I am stuck and wanted to see if the community can help me out!

Here's a quick and dirty example of my worksheet:

Columns A - E contains lists of names:

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 100, align: left"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]A[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]B[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]C[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]D[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]E[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]joe[/TD]
[TD]tim[/TD]
[TD]bill[/TD]
[TD]joe[/TD]
[TD]luke[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]james[/TD]
[TD]lee[/TD]
[TD]bob[/TD]
[TD]bob[/TD]
[TD]roger[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]tim[/TD]
[TD]luke[/TD]
[TD]mark[/TD]
[TD]kevin[/TD]
[TD]ike[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]ike[/TD]
[TD]bob[/TD]
[TD]roger[/TD]
[TD]tim[/TD]
[TD]joe[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]kevin[/TD]
[TD]james[/TD]
[TD]joe[/TD]
[TD]scott[/TD]
[TD]mike[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]










Elsewhere in my worksheet, I've used a formula to pull all of the names contained anywhere in Columns A - E and it looks like this:

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 100"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]H[/TD]
[TD]I[/TD]
[TD]J[/TD]
[TD]K[/TD]
[TD]L[/TD]
[TD]M[/TD]
[TD]N[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]joe[/TD]
[TD]tim[/TD]
[TD]bob[/TD]
[TD]mike[/TD]
[TD]roger[/TD]
[TD]kevin[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]joe[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]tim[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]bob[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]mike[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]roger[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]kevin[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

What I want my formula to do is, in cell J2, count how many columns (A - E) contain BOTH the names "tim" and "joe" . So it would return a number from 0 - 5. And in cell M4 it will count how many columns "roger" and "bob" both appear in, and so on.

I won't waste any more time trying to explain what functions I've tried with no success. Hopefully my example is clear enough. Thanks in advance for any help!
 

Excel Facts

How to find 2nd largest value in a column?
MAX finds the largest value. =LARGE(A:A,2) will find the second largest. =SMALL(A:A,3) will find the third smallest

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