IF formula contains certain text for entire column - excel

So for this excel file, I need to calculate a percent for one subject which has several rows. With this, I have thus come up with:
=IF(COUNT(SEARCH("b0021",B3:B14)), (SUM(T3:T14))/12, "no")
Column B Column T
b0021 1
b0021 0
...
b0025 1
However, this does not seem to work, as to search that ALL the cells contain this text (right now it looks that at least one cell contains the text, which is not what I want to do if it should be one for the subject).
Any ideas of how I can do this?
Thank you.

You need to edit your cell and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to make it array formula
Your formula =COUNT(SEARCH("b0021",B3:B14)) would start showing result only if it's in brackets
{=COUNT(SEARCH("b0021",B3:B14))}
In other words just add { } to make it formula array or by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Enter while editing your formula
{=IF(COUNT(SEARCH("b0021",B3:B14)), (SUM(T3:T14))/12, "no")}
It looks from your formula that you would need to use =SUMIFS formula rather than what you have:
=SUMIFS(T3:T14,B3:B14,"b0021")/SUM(T3:T14)

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It's an index formula that indexes D2:D41 and then the match has a look at the 4 columns E, F, G, and H with OR (confusingly the + sign denotes or).
Because you wanted to search within the cell using *, I used ISNUMBER(FIND($A85,G2:G41)) which returns the character number if it finds the text.
To return more than 1 title
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I have placed the formula in cells B85 and B86 and below but I would advise against using this formula in an area of a sheet if you are going to insert and delete rows above as this sometimes breaks the ROW(1:1:) references. I normally put a formula like this on a different sheet from the source data.

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I am a novice excel user so I'll explain this the best I can. I need to track Returns, Returns/Exchanges and who processed each...
Cell column A Contains employee Names
Cell column B is where return information will go
Cell column C is where exchange information will go
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