Counting cells, similar values

S

SteW

Is it possible to get excel to count the cells in a worksheet which contain a
text similar to a value?

eg If I wanted it to count the number of cells which contains the word
"apples", but in some cells it might be spelt "aples" or "appls"?
I know in that instance I could just run a spell check, but you get the idea.
 
B

Bob Phillips

=COUNTIF(A1:A1000,"mytext")

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Bob Phillips

SteW said:
Is it possible to get excel to count the cells in a worksheet which contain a
text similar to a value?

eg If I wanted it to count the number of cells which contains the word
"apples", but in some cells it might be spelt "aples" or "appls"?
I know in that instance I could just run a spell check, but you get the
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idea.
 
S

SteW

Yeah I know I can do that, but if the text doesn't match exactly what I put
in quotation marks it won't be counted. Eg If I want it to count "Hello" and
someone's input "Hello." it won't be counted. Can't I get it to count things
that are similar to "hello"?
 
G

Guest

How does Excel know what is *similar* to Hello? Is it Helo, Heloo, Helloo,
or Gello? Or is it none of these?
 
B

Bob Phillips

Not really, your similar is my nowhere near. You could set some rules but
that would be manual.
 
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