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Excel formula: Count cells equal to

This article will focus on the Excel formulas for counting the cells which are exactly equal to a text string you specify or partial equal to the given text string as below screenshots shown. Firstly, it will explain the formula syntax and argument, the provides examples for you to better understand.
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Count cells exactly equal to

Count cells partial equal to

Count cells exactly equal to

If you want to count cells exactly match a given criterion, you can choose the COUNTIF function or the SUMPRODUCT (combine with the EXACT function) function to count cells exactly equal to without case sensitive or with case sensitive.

Count cells exactly equal to without case sensitive

Generic formula:

COUNTIF(range, criteria)

Arguments

  • Range: Required, the cells you want to count that match to criteria from.
  • Criteria: Required, the criteria that the cells need to match to while counting.

Example:

For instance, here is a list of names, now you want to count the number of cells which exactly match to “Lily James”, please use below formula:

=COUNTIF(B3:B7,D3)

Or

=COUNTIF(B3:B7,"Lily James")

In above formulas, B3:B7 is the range you want to count cells from, D3 or “Lily James” is the criteria cells need to match to.

The press Enter key to get the counted result, see screenshot shown:
doc count cells equal to 3

Count cells exactly equal to with case sensitive

Generic formula:

SUMPRODUCT((--EXACT(value,range))

Arguments

  • Range: Required, the cells you want to count that match to criteria from.
  • Value: Required, the criteria that the cells need to match to while counting.

Example:

Here is a list of product names, now you want to count the number of cells which exactly match to “AA-1” with case sensitive, please use below formula:

=SUMPRODUCT(--EXACT(D11,B11:B15))

Or

=SUMPRODUCT(--EXACT("AA-1",B11:B15))

In above formulas, B11:B15 is the range you want to count cells from, D11 or “AA-1” is the criteria counted cells need to match to.

The press Enter key to get the counted result, see screenshot shown:
doc count cells equal to 4

Count cells partial equal to

If you want to count cells particle match to a specific text string, you also can use the COUNTIF function to deal with this job.

Please take reference to above part to understand the formula syntax and argument of the COUNTIF function. Here I will provide a specific example to explain how to count cells particle equal to given value.

Example:

Here is a list of fruits, and now the job is to count the cells which contain “an”. Please use below formula:

=COUNTIF(B3:B7,D3)

Or

=COUNTIF(B3:B7,"*an*")

In above formulas, B3:B75 is the range you want to count cells from, D3 or “*an*” is the criteria counted cells need to match to. * is the wildcard to indicate any string, in this case, *an* means that the cell contain the string ”an”.

The press Enter key to get the counted result, see screenshot shown:
doc count cells equal to 5

Sample File

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