mmatz,

Assuming that your list is in cells A1:A5, if you put this formula in A7, it
should accomplish what you desi

=countif(A1:A5,"bbb")

HTH,

Conan




"mmatz" wrote in message
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I have a list that has aaa, bbb, cccc, aaa, bbb and want to count the
different instances. So in this example it would be 3 because bbb is
repeated. Is there a formula that does this?