Count Multiple Instances of Text in a Cell
 

Ooops!

I see you're testing a range, not a single cell:

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(I2:I44)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(I2:I44,"blue","")))/LEN("blue")

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(I2:I44)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(UPPER(I2:I44),"BLUE","")))/LEN("blue")

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"T. Valko" wrote in message
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Try this:

=(LEN(A12)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A12,"blue","")))/LEN("blue")

Note that SUBSTITUTE is case sensitive.

This version takes case into account:

=(LEN(A12)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(UPPER(A12),"BLUE","")))/LEN("blue")

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"dave roth" wrote in message
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Good Afternoon:

I need to be able to count multiple instances of the same piece of text
in a
given cell, i.e. "blue, blue, red, green." How I currently have this
setup
is:

=countif(I2:I44,"*blue*")
=countif(I2:I44,"*green*")
=countif(I2:I44,"*red*")
on separate rows. In the above example these will return 1 blue, 1
green,
and 1 red; I need it to return 2 blues.

Thanks very much, and a good weekend to all.

Dave Roth