Thank you! Exactly what I am looking for. I tried to put something like
this together but didn't realize that I would have to use "SUM" and I admit
that I don't know when to use the characters "{" and "}" in a formula.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

=SUM(COUNTIF(A1:a100,{"AB","xd","cd"}))

AJ wrote:

I want to count the occurrences of multiple character strings eg. "AB" "XD"
and "CD". Is there an easier way than = (countif(1:100), "AB") +
(countif(1:100), "XD") etc.

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Dave Peterson