Using COUNTIF function on large text fields

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Purple Duck

Hello all,

I am trying to use a countif function to count the number of
occurrences of a specific phrase within a column of data:

=COUNTIF(<column>,"*text*")

The problem I am encountering is that the countif function stops
searching after the first 254 characters in each field.

Any ideas how to get around this?

Thank you in advance.
 

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