Do you mean COUNTIF. Check it out in help and post back if that is not what
you need.

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)



"Chantal" wrote in message
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I am trying to find the correct function to use, that will assign a number
value to the variety of different cell names in one column. Some of these
names contain letters and numbers. Please help!