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Anonymous
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How Count cells with specific Text in certain column

Dears

 

AM trying to count cells with specific text inside it

 

i have project column and i want to count cells that contains specifc word which is "enhancement" inside this cell in spesific column

 

thanx

 

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amitchandak
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Super User

@Anonymous , You can use

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/containsstring-function-dax

 

calculate(count([Names]),CONTAINSSTRING([Names],"enhancement"))

 

or

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/search-function-dax

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/find-function-dax

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mahoneypat
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You can try this approach

 

Projects with Enhancement = COUNTROWS(Filter(Table, SEARCH("Enhancement", Table[Project], , 0)>0))

 

If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.  Kudos are appreciated too.  Please let me know if not.

Regards,

Pat





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Anonymous
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both solutions working for me

 

thanx 

 

mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

You can try this approach

 

Projects with Enhancement = COUNTROWS(Filter(Table, SEARCH("Enhancement", Table[Project], , 0)>0))

 

If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.  Kudos are appreciated too.  Please let me know if not.

Regards,

Pat





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Thanks for the solution, But it count the header also?

amitchandak
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Super User

@Anonymous , You can use

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/containsstring-function-dax

 

calculate(count([Names]),CONTAINSSTRING([Names],"enhancement"))

 

or

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/search-function-dax

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/find-function-dax

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