is their a formula to count how many times a character appears in on cell

thanks

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:00:01 -0700, Rich (no
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is their a formula to count how many times a character appears in on cell

thanks

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Try this formula:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(MID(A1,ROW(1:100),1)="x"))

where "x" is the character and A1 is the cell you are investigating.
Change the 100 if your data is longer than 100 characters.

Hope this helps / Lars-Åke

Count how many letters are missing which will be the number of occurrences
of that letter:

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

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is their a formula to count how many times a character appears in on cell

thanks

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