Suza, here is one way,

=SUMPRODUCT(--EXACT(A1:A10,"H"))

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"Suza" wrote in message
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The problem is how to ask the system to count CAPITAL h's as opposed to
LOWER
case h's.
I am using COUNTIF but it's counting H and h as the same