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Rick Rothstein Rick Rothstein is offline
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Default Count the number of occurances in a cell

Try this...

=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",""))

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"bobbroda" wrote in message
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I'm trying to count the number of occurances of a comma in an individual
cell
in Excel. Does anyone have any ideas? thanks.