I'd use:
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))+(A1<"")

It handles empty cells better.

(and maybe toss in Trim() to make sure extra spaces between words won't cause
errors in the count.)

Ragdyer wrote:

And to count the number of words:

=LEN(A1)+1-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))
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=len(a1)
will return the count of all characters in A1

=len(substitute(a1," ","")
will count the number of non-spaces in A1

and
=len(a1)-len(substitute(a1," ",""))
will count the number of spaces in A1.



NH wrote:

Please help...is it a way to count characters with space in a cell?

Examples:
Cell A1: Apple and oranges == 17 characters (with spaces); 15
characters
(with no spaces)
Cell A2: Pineapple == 9 characters (with and with no spaces)

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