Count items that begin with digit 7 (items could be number or text)

[snd]

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712345678​

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[TD]712345678[/TD]
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123745678​

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8234756​

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712345​

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7123​

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[TD]Y712345[/TD]
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[TD]No. of items (that are numbers) that start with digit 7:[/TD]
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[TD]No. of items (that are text) that start with digit 7:[/TD]
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[TD]Please help me on this, (preferably, worksheet function.) Thanks.[/TD]
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[Ron Coderre]

Using your posted example...
Here's one approach:

count of numeric values beginning with 7

A14: =SUMPRODUCT(((SEARCH("7",A1:A10&"7")=1)*ISNUMBER(A1:A10)))

count of text values beginning with 7

A15: =COUNTIF(A1:A10,"7*")

For your data, those formulas return: 3 and 1, respectively.

Is that something you can work with?

 

[snd]

Absolutely, works just fine. Thank you Mr. Ron Coderre.