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Hi guys!!!

Easy one - how do you count the numbers of charachters with a cell?

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Hi Darin,
Easy one - how do you count the numbers of charachters with a cell?


=len(a1)

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use LEN()
e.g. LEN(A1)

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Hi guys!!!

Easy one - how do you count the numbers of charachters with a cell?

Thanks

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Anyone know why LEN and LENB return the same number on my English
W2K/Office2000 with Chinese text (i.e. both return the number of characters)
but return the correct numbers (i.e.characters & bytes repectively) on my
Chinese W2K/Office2000 with Chinese text.

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Hi Darin,
Easy one - how do you count the numbers of charachters with a cell?


=len(a1)

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