How do I count the cells ending with a specific letter?

[David]

Hi,

I am trying to count the cells in a column ending with a particular letter.
Cells contain alphanumeric values. For ex: =COUNTIF(W5:W7,"*P") This is
giving zero as the answer instead of 2. Please help..

 

[RonaldoOneNil]

=COUNTIF(W5:W7,"=*P")

 

[David]

Nope not working Ronaldo

=COUNTIF(W5:W7,"=*P")

 

[RonaldoOneNil]

Its working fine on mine. I've tested with all sorts of data (letters &
numbers, lower & upper case P, P's in the middle and beginning of cells)

 

[David]

yea! I checked on excelsheet and its working. But I am currently working on
Google Spreadsheets. Would this be reason why I am not getting the required
results?

 

[RagDyer]

This is from what you injected this A.M.in an old thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel.newusers/msg/1c90923a1d6cfcd4