Excel公式可计算单个单元格中的多种可能组合

Question

Newbie-ish with Excel here. I'm trying to keep things simple for long term ease of use since most at my job don't know much of anything with Excel or anything with VBA.

I'm looking to have a formula count cells containing up to 4 different codes (TRM2-TRM5) out of 32 possible codes. However, the cell these combinations are entered in is not required to be in any specific order.

Such as:

B1 (TRM2, R2, TRM3)

B2 (TRM2, PN1, DC5, TRM4)

B3 (PN1, IPA5c, HW2, TRM5)

B4 (PN1, HW2, R2)

The desired result of the formula is a count of 3

I don't need to count the individual number of times the TRM codes appear. Just the number of cells they appear in a range (such as B1:B99 ).

I've tried COUNTIFS but quickly discovered I'd have to have a COUNTIFS for each possible combination of the 4 codes.

So far the simplest way is to use multiple instances of conditional formatting that highlights the cells that contain one of the four codes and do a visual count. All the examples I've read don't have multiple values in one cell so I'm not sure how to tackle it.

For those that are curious, the purpose is error reporting for issues missed in an audit.

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

Given your example, you can do this with a helper column.

Either hard code an array constant with the codes to find, or enter them in separate cells someplace. I did the latter and named that range theCodes .

Use this array formula in the helper column:

C1: =MIN(FIND(theCodes,B1&CONCAT(theCodes)))<LEN(B1)

and fill down as far as needed

This will return TRUE or FALSE depending on whether any of the codes are present in the cell.

Then, a simple COUNTIF will count all the TRUE 's

 D1: =COUNTIF($C:$C,TRUE)

NOTE: To enter/confirm an array formula , hold down ctrl + shift while hitting enter . If you do this correctly, Excel will place braces {...} around the formula seen in the formula bar.