The long formula was something that I used with another worksheet of which was the only solution that I could find to count the total number of "FMN" numbers in each cell (if more than one FMN in a given cell it would be separated by a space). The format for the FMN numbers, for example was FMN2011055. The long formula took into account the seperations in order for the count function to work correctly and ignored any cell which had no data.

True, in this case, I am counting actual set or sets of numbers of which are all numerical. And again, if more than "NOMEM" or "NTFY" in a given cell, the numbers are seperated by a blank space.

My current problem is when I attempt to count the total number of "NOMEM" with additional conditional filters. For example, when I add the filter for "Base Location", "Page" and "Section" qualifies, I cannot get my formulas to work. I can only seem to be able to use one of the above named filters but not two or three of them combined.