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    Counting the number of occurrences of specific text in a column

    I wish to count the number of occurrences of specific text in a column and multiply the result by another cell. The input in the column is derived from a list. Originally I was using a countif function but now there are multiple choices within the list and I couldn’t get countif to produce the result and thought countifs would be the best solution but I’m still struggling to resolve what I thought was a simple 5 minute job.
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    Re: Counting the number of occurrences of specific text in a column

    May be:

    =SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIF(C3:C31,$A$4:$A$6))*E3
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    Re: Counting the number of occurrences of specific text in a column

    Using your posted workbook,
    try something like this:
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    Is that something you can work with?
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    Re: Counting the number of occurrences of specific text in a column

    Can you describe what you are trying to accomplish a bit better? What column or cell are you trying to count? Column C? Where do you want that number to show? What number are trying to mulitply by? What is the criteria to count? Anything in your list or just 2 of them?

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    Re: Counting the number of occurrences of specific text in a column

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    Re: Counting the number of occurrences of specific text in a column

    Using this:

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    Will count the number of occurrences in C6:C22 based on text matches in the range A3:A7 (in this case, it is 6). I'm not sure what else you require, since your sample workbook seems to be disjointed.
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