Thanks a lot, RagDyer -- that did the trick for me!!

"RagDyer" wrote:

You say that you wish to count "text" information in a column, yet you are
using COUNTA() !

That function counts *everything* ... numbers, text, logicals, errors, and
zero length strings ( "" ).

If you're really looking to count *only* text, try this:

=COUNTIF(H1:H500,"*?")

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HTH,

RD
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"gerns" wrote in message
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I am trying to count text information in a column. Using =CountA
(H1:H500),
the figure comes out much too high.