In article . com,
"steveo" wrote:

Would a
variation of that work to count multiple words in a range (one formula)
so the total shows in one cell?

Try...

=SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(MATCH(Range,{"Text1","Text2","Text3"},0)) )

or

=SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(MATCH(RangeX,RangeY,0)))

....where RangeY contains your list of words.

Also how would I add a "not" to exclude
some words within individual cells? any ideas anyone? steveo

Not sure what you mean. Can you provide an example?