This will give you the number of lower case a's in a range:
=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(A1:A100)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A100,"a","")))/len("a")

If you want to ignore case, you can use:
=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(A1:A100)
-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(upper(A1:A100),upper("a"),"")))/len("a")

(Substitute is case-sensitive)

Adjust the ranges to match--but you can't use whole columns (except in xl2007+).




Brian wrote:

Howdy All,

I want to count the number of occurrences of a partipular letter in a column

Any help?

THanks,
Brian



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Dave Peterson