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Default count number of times a particular letter appears in a cell

On Nov 24, 2:12*pm, Mike H wrote:
Hi,

Try this case sensitive idea

=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"E",""))

Mike



"fallowfz" wrote:
Is there a function which will return the number of times, for
example, the letter "E" appears in a cell containing a mix of text,
numbers, and other characters, e.g. (), :, etc?


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WOW...thanks for the quick responses. All of them work great!