Thread: Excel= can I count how many times letter a appears in 1 cell?
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Default Excel= can I count how many times letter a appears in 1 cell?
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"a",""))
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David Biddulph

"Jack D" <Jack wrote in message
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in cell a1 is the following sentence - A cat ran up a tree. Is there a
formula to find how many times the letter "a" is in cell A1?


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