=COUNTIF(A1:A1000,"mytext")

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HTH

Bob Phillips

"SteW" wrote in message
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Is it possible to get excel to count the cells in a worksheet which
contain a
text similar to a value?

eg If I wanted it to count the number of cells which contains the word
"apples", but in some cells it might be spelt "aples" or "appls"?
I know in that instance I could just run a spell check, but you get the
idea.