=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(A1:A10))

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HTH

Bob

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

"first" wrote in message
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Hi,

basic question but I am a really new user of Excel. I hope that
somebody will help me.

I need to count all characters (including spaces) in all marked cells.
is there any simple way to do this?

Thanks

s.