Thank you Peo....that works perfectly.


"Peo Sjoblom" wrote in message
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You can but you need to use another function to sum it

=SUMPRODUCT((LEN(A1:A10)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A10,"good","")))/4)



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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"Mike G" wrote in message
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Thanks for the formulas.....If I wanted to check more that one cell i.e.
a1:a25 I thought I could replace the A1 with A1:A25, I get the #value
again... Thanks for your patience!


"PCLIVE" wrote in message
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=(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"good","")))/4

If the word to serch is in a particular cell, say B1, then:
=(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,B1,"")))/LEN(B1)


"Mike G" wrote in message
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If I have a cell that contains "good things come in good packages" and
want to count the number of occurances of the word "good" how would I
do that? Have tried countif and sumproduct and both give me #name?