I think JulieD missed the fact that the text is all in one cell. Try it this
way. Let's assume the text you are looking for (FT or PTF) is in C35

=(LEN(D35)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(D35,C35,"")))/LEN(C35)

BTW, the formula is case-sensitive. You have to search for FT, not ft or fT,
etc.


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:51:12 -0800, "Steve"
wrote:

I did try countif, but could not get it to work.
The information is all in one cell, in this case D35.

=COUNTIF(D35,"* FT *")

This formula is resulting in 1, not 5.

Thanks,

Steve

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi Steve

you can use the COUNTIF function
=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"* FT *")
=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"* PTF *")

Cheers
JulieD

"Steve" wrote in message
...
The following info is imported into one cell.

P5-MPC FT 81,
P5-MPC FT 82,
P5-MPC FT 83,
P5-MPC FT 93,
P6-PPDMO PTF 4,
P6-PPDMO PTF 16

I need to count how many FT's are in the cell, and how many PTF's are in
the
cell. The above data will vary in different cells, with up to a
combination
of possibly 15 total FT's & PTF's in the various cells.

Thanks,

Steve