Actually, if you need to count every single occurence of :d" in
multi-character strings in a range, you can use:

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(A1:A4)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A4,"d","")))

if you want to count all the multi-character strings in a range where "d"
occurs at least once:

=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"*d*")

Regards,
KL


"KL" wrote in message
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=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"d")

KL

"Steve" wrote in message
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Can I sum up specific letters in a range of cells?

for example: d+d+d=3d