Thread: [Solved] Comparing 2 columns of Text
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Old 02-02-2012, 08:25 PM
Berk21 Berk21 is offline Windows XP Office 2010 64bit
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Originally Posted by teshurtz View Post

Better yet to be more consistent with your example. you are trying to see if a single column has more of one word than another right?
so in column D cell 1 type =countif(c:c,"text") and in D2 =countif(c:c,"text2"). then compare cell d1 and d2

or you could combine them all in cell A1 with a slightly complex "if" statement =if(countif(c:c,"text")>countif(c:c,"text2"),"text ",if(countif(c:c,"text")<countif(c:c,"text2"),"tex t2","Equal")

This will make cell A1 display the word "text" if there are more cells in column C containing "text" and A1 will display the word "text2" if there are more cells in column C containing "text2". if there are the same number of text and text 2 it will say "Equal"
your on the correct track...im testing your theory...to elaborate on the text, text1 concept...switch it to win, lost...
maybe now you know where im going with this...if wins over see lost then a dedicated cell says 1 for win and 0 for lost.

let me know what you think..
thanks!

Last edited by Berk21; 02-02-2012 at 08:36 PM. Reason: typo error
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