Hi,

I suggest trying text to columns on the column F:F.

1) Select column F:F
2) Data - Text to Columns (on the menu bar)
3) Delimited
4) Choose ' as the delimiter
5) Finish

Does that work?

Regards,
A

"vipa2000" wrote:

I have the following data. i need to count those recorrds where there length
is less than 12 characters.

I used =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(Sheet1!F:F)<12)) but excel falls down saying the
cells are formatted as text or contain an apostrophe. i tried to format the
cells as general but still won't work. Other users will use this so i don't
want a lot of user intervention.

FunctLocation
12087359305PV1525
12087325530DRIVE
12087350101
12087320109PV4201
12087325350PIPING
12087325001
12087325759LR-F01

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Regards vipa