This seems like a job for Pivot tables to me. See
http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot01.html

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HTH

Bob Phillips

"uzusan" wrote in message
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hi,

im looking for a way to give totals of the number of occurances of
strings in a column.

the column i have has a set range of possible string values (which can
be referenced in a seperate sheet) and im looking for a way to produce
a table which shows how many times each of these occurances happens.

i have about 6 columns that i need totals on, each has a seperate
column on a seperate sheet with the values.

(the list is a history of which selection is made on a cell which has
data validation based upon the seperate list).

every time one of the cells is changed, the user runs a macro which
records each selection into the history sheet.

thanks
uzusan