Use COUNTIF. For example, to count the no. of times 8
appears in columns A-C:

=COUNTIF(A:C,8)

Of course this only counts cells with 8. Cells such as 88
would be ignored.

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

-----Original Message-----
what function do I used to have excel search through
columns and show how
many times the number I want appears?



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