I want to be able to count the number of times a letter is used in a cell.
For example, if cell A2 contains the string "radar" I want to be able to
have excel return the number of times the letter "a" is used (2).

Hi,

use this code:

Press ALT+F11 copy and paste there
use =countchar("a";a1)

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Function CountChar(MyChar, Mystring)
Dim counter As Integer

CountChar = 0

For counter = 1 To Len(Mystring)
If Mid(Mystring, counter, 1) = MyChar Then CountChar = CountChar + 1
Next counter

End Function

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hope this helps
regards from Brazil
Marcelo





"jsrawlings" escreveu:

I want to be able to count the number of times a letter is used in a cell.
For example, if cell A2 contains the string "radar" I want to be able to
have excel return the number of times the letter "a" is used (2).

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


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Since SUBSTITUTE is case sensitive, you might also consider:

=LEN(D23)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(D23,"A",""),"a",""))

This will count both "A" and "a"

HTH,
Elkar


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


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Or just:

=LEN(D23)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(Upper(D23),"A",""))



Elkar wrote:

Since SUBSTITUTE is case sensitive, you might also consider:

=LEN(D23)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(D23,"A",""),"a",""))

This will count both "A" and "a"

HTH,
Elkar

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


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So will this:

=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(UPPER(A1),"A",""))

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Since SUBSTITUTE is case sensitive, you might also consider:

=LEN(D23)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(D23,"A",""),"a",""))

This will count both "A" and "a"

HTH,
Elkar


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


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