I have access to publically available data that contains "ticks" in cells. I
can copy the data across to Excel and the ticks appear as pictures, all
neatly arranged in the appropriate cell. One tick - one picture, two ticks -
two pictures, there can be up to three ticks / pictures per cell. I can count
them and enter the number of ticks manually but this is time consuming and
liable to mistakes.

Any suggestions?