Count and Search for Text in Excel with Countif - The Ultimate Test of Excel Skills! - Excel Tips and Tricks

To count and search for text in Excel, use the COUNTIF function. This function allows you to search for a specific value or pattern in a range of cells and count the number of cells that match the criteria. To highlight the cells that match the search criteria, use the "Conditional Formatting" option in the "Home" tab of the ribbon and choose the formatting options for the highlighted cells. To count the number of highlighted cells, use the COUNTIF formula again with the same search criteria.

This is how you can do it.

Search And Highlight Cell(s)
1) Select cells.
2) Home -- Styles -- Conditional Formatting
3) New Rule...
4) Select " Use a formula to determine which cells to format"
5) Enter this formula
=COUNTIF($C$2:$C$6,A2)
6) Format...
7) Fill tab
8) Select color
9) OK
10) OK

Count How Often A Value Occurs
1) Select cell.
2) Enter this formula
=COUNTIF(A:A,C2)
3) Apply to rest of the rows.


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