Is it possible for me to have excel sum all the one letter codes into
individual cells and let me know the count?

Ie. (AAABBCDDDD) A=3, B=2, C=1, D=4
and have those sums placed in an individual cell for each?

Thanks for the help.


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Try this:

For a value in A2
And B1: A
And C1: B

B2: =LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(UPPER(A2),B$1,""))
C2: =LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(UPPER(A2),C$1,""))

Those formulas return the counts of "A" and "B" in cell A2,
respectively.

Is that something you can work with?

Ron


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try
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(UPPER(A1),"A",""))
or if b1 contains A
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(UPPER(A1),b1,""))

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Is it possible for me to have excel sum all the one letter codes into
individual cells and let me know the count?

Ie. (AAABBCDDDD) A=3, B=2, C=1, D=4
and have those sums placed in an individual cell for each?

Thanks for the help.


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Assuming that A2 contains the text string, let C2:C5 contain A, B, C,
and D, then enter the following formula in D2 and copy down:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(MID($A$2,ROW(INDEX($A:$A,1):INDEX($A:$A,LEN($A$2) )),1)=C2)
)

Hope this helps!

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Is it possible for me to have excel sum all the one letter codes into
individual cells and let me know the count?

Ie. (AAABBCDDDD) A=3, B=2, C=1, D=4
and have those sums placed in an individual cell for each?

Thanks for the help.

Thanks again for all the help. It works perfectly.


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