If in Range a1:a100 you say have abc appearing 5 times
Try in cell C1 =Countif(A1:A100,D1)
where A1:A100 is all your text
Enter into D1 abc
C1 should bring back 5


"Matt Stone" wrote in message
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I need to count a number of text cells to find out if an exact same
occurance occurs more than twice.
I Use Excel 2003

Any ideas

Thanks