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Reference another sheet in same workbook, using cell value in formula and to include text from cell in COUNTIF

Tags: microsoft, Excel, 2003
Hi Experts

I am using a COUNTIF formula on a summary sheet, to look in another sheet and count the number of matches to a criteria.
What I was hoping for is rather than adding in the sheet's name, is to pull it from a cell value and also to add in the serach string from a cell on the summary sheet.

e.g.:  =COUNTIF('COM 3'!$C:$C,"A Text String*")

where the text "COM 3" is located in cell B2 (and is also the sheet name) and
where "A Text String" is located on cell A3 of the summary sheet.

I have a row of these COM's in row 2 so what i was looking for is something like in B3:

=COUNTIF('Ref to cell $B$2'!$C:$C,"(Text in cell A3)*") so I can autofill along the rows.

I will then add different search strings on subsequent rows.

I have attached a much chopped down example.
Each COM sheet has about 20,000 rows in the original.
I will be needing about 40 search strings - so I just want to add them all in column A.

Many thanks

Nick
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