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4. Excel Functions · Conditional Calculations · 15 min

14. Criteria from Cells and Wildcards

Lesson 14 of 25
Task 1 of 4
  1. In E3, count how many items cost more than the threshold in E1. Refer to the threshold by its cell.

Lesson theory

You can build a condition from text and a cell with the & sign:

=COUNTIF(B2:B9,">"&E1) counts values greater than the number in E1. Change E1 and the answer recalculates.

Wildcards for text: * stands for any characters, ? for exactly one character.

"Tea*" matches everything that starts with "Tea"; "*coffee*" matches "coffee" anywhere in the text.

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