Suza,

Try this

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(FIND("h",I1:I20))))

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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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