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How do I count the number of cells that contain the string "A*" - without treating the star as a wildcard character?

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Quoted directly from Excel help documents: "If you want to find an actual question mark or asterisk, type a tilde (~) before the character."

COUNTIF(A1:A4,"A~*")

Will Bickford
Great - thanks very much.
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