Excel - Countif/Vlookup

Regional Sales Florida = RSF

I need to count the number of times ???RSF??? appear in 3 ranges. I???m using the
below formula to do it.

=COUNTIF($I$51:$I$253,B41)+COUNTIF('TSection'!$I:$I,B41)+COUNTIF('BSection'!$I:$I,B41)

The problem is that the data appeared on the cells as Regional sales Florida.

How can I combine countif and Vlookup to get a result?
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Juan Carlos

So, do you have Regional Sales Florida in cell c41?

If so, then:

=COUNTIF($I$51:$I$253,VLOOKUP(B41,B:C,2,0))+COUNTIF('TSection'!$I:$I,VLOOKUP(B41,B:C,2,0))+COUNTIF('BSection'!$I:$I,VLOOKUP(B41,B:C,2,0))

would look for regional Sales florida in the mentioned ranges.

Otherwise, may need to adjust.

Your answer worked...Thanks for your help.

Juan Carlos