How to use Excels COUNTIF in every nth cell and retain wildcard functionality
问题 I have been looking every where on the net and everyone seems to simply suggest an alternative like SUMPRODUCT , however, I want to use wildcards. Wildcards work fine in COUNTIF but not in other alternatives I have seen. How can I search every nth cell in a column and return a count of the number of times an exact substring is found (i.e. COUNTIF(range, string) , where range is every nth cell and string could be "*somestring" , "some string*" , "*somestring*" or "some?string" ) 回答1: Yes,