how to use find formula in a countif formula

[buroh]

Hello all,

I am getting a spill error from my formula and I cannot work out how to fix it.

I have a countifs formula which is looking at different criteria. It works in one column for the criteria I had set, but in my 2nd column I need to a Find formula to find certain text to return a count result, but I am getting spill result instead of a number.

I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

In a column specified below in the report tab are titles which a 3 letter code at the end, so I have a list of codes and need to do a count based on another criteria, which I have not put in this post, but I tried the Isnumber approach in the formula, but I get the same result of spill. I used start at number and no joy.

So D3 contains the 3 letter code to search on which is ACO.

=COUNTIF('Report QA'!$K$126:$K$156,isnumber(SEARCH(D3,'Report QA'!$K$126:$K$156)))

Any suggestions would be helpful.

 

[etaf]

perhaps
=COUNTIF('Report QA'!$K$126:$K$156,"*"&D3&"*")

 

[buroh]

perhaps
=COUNTIF('Report QA'!$K$126:$K$156,"*"&D3&"*")

Thank you for the reply, it stopped the spill, but return 0 results.

 

[etaf]

need to see the information

A SMALL sample spreadsheet, around 10-20 rows, would help a lot here, with all sensitive data removed, and expected results mocked up and manually entered, with a few notes of explanation.

This will possibly enable a quicker and more accurate solution for you.

MrExcel has a tool called “XL2BB” that lets you post samples of your data and will allow us to copy/paste your sample data into our Excel spreadsheets, saving a lot of time.

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You can also test to see if it works ok, in the "Test Here" forum.

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OR if you cannot get XL2BB to work, or have restrictions on your PC

then put the sample spreadsheet onto a share

I only tend to goto OneDrive, Dropbox or google docs , as I'm never certain of other random share sites and possible virus.
Please make sure you have a representative data sample and also that the data has been desensitised, remember this site is open to anyone with internet access to see - so any sensitive / personal data should be removed

Make sure you set any share or google to share to everyone

 

[buroh]

Sorry, I realised I didn't reference to the other sheet and it worked. thank you all for this small problem.

 

[etaf]

you are welcome