Just so you know of the different ways to do this, you could also use:
=Countif(A1:A1000,"A")-countif(A80:A90,"A")

Regards,
Paul



"RS" wrote in message
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Perfect! Thank you!!

"Toppers" wrote:

perhaps

=Countif(A1:A79,"A")+countif(A91:A1000,"A")

"RS" wrote:

I am trying to find a count of the letter "A" in the first column. I
want to
skip over ten cells (A80 - A90) and continue on counting from A91 and
on. I
do not want A80 - A90 to be in the count. Is this possible to do?
What
would the formula be? Any advice would be much appreciated!!