Depends how you want to define words, but if you want to count spaces and
add one (unless the cell is empty), you could try:
=IF(LEN(A1)=0,0,LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))+1)
If you had multiple spaces in one place, that would get it confused, of
course.
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David Biddulph

"Learning Excel" wrote in message
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Do you happen to have a formula to count WORDS in a cell ?

"Learning Excel" wrote:

Thanks a lot David Biddulph.

"David Biddulph" wrote:

=LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))
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David Biddulph

"Learning Excel" wrote in
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My formula is =LEN(A1) and copied down.
Is there a variation of this formula to count just the letters in
each
cell
without counting the spaces between words ?
Thanks for the reply.
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