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Default Count the number of occurances in a cell

With the text in A1 try

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

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"bobbroda" wrote:

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