yogi_Search For Occurrence Of Items In A2 to A In Column D Of FormResponses

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Yogi Anand, D.Eng, P.E.      ANAND Enterprises LLC -- Rochester Hills MI     www.energyefficientbuild.com.   Feb-05-2014
post by john_nc (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/docs/spreadsheets/yk4ddMEFkJ4)
Filter issue with using Wildcards for Cell Data

Thank you ahead of time for any assistance you can offer!!

Issue....  

I have a formula that is set to count data based on information from a certain cell, which is "A2" in this case.

=counta(iferror(filter(FormResponses!D:D,FormResponses!D:D=A2)))

The delima I have is that I want to be able to say if it has any A2 or more infomation. I know you can do this if you were to use Wildcards and exact data like below....

=counta(iferror(filter(FormResponses!D:D,FormResponses!D:D="*Something*")))

With above it would count all sells that had the word Something in it.

Is there a way to modify the first formula I posted to have wild cards so it's counting the words from A2 even if there is more than that information in the cell??

I need it to pull from the cell as it's counting information for multiple rows which are different.

Thanks

John

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