COUNTIFS not counting

IANWILLZ

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Hi
I'm learning about COUNTIFS and I don't understand why this is working in one row and not another.

In my first cell in question My Criteria is TECH (E4) in Ranges A2 to A20 and R(G4) is ranges B2 to B20 :

I'm using =COUNTIFS($A2:$A20,$E4,$B2:$B20,G4) - and it seems to work, it counts 4 occurrences of R

On a different cell I want to count the following criteria BUS (E9) and R (G9)

=COUNTIFS($A2:$A20,$E9,$B2:$B20,G9) and it is not counting the Rs.

Can anyone shed light on this? Be gentle I am a beginner.

Thanks
Ian




OACColour
TECHR
TECHA
TECHGTECH(E4)RAG
TECHR422
TECHA
TECHG
TECHR
TECHRBUS(E9)RAG
BUSA000
BUSR
BUSA
BUSG
BUSR
BUSA
BUSG
BUSR
BUSG
BUSG
BUSA

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Note that is not an entirely uncommon issue, especially if the data is coming from the web or other applications. These often have extra spaces of characters that need to be addressed for the data to be cleaned up and for the formulas to work correctly.
 
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