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is there a way to count the charaters in a cell. For example, my spreadsheet
looks as so:

AA
DDD
SSSSS

Can a formula in col B show the following:

2
3
5

Thank you in advance.

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One way:

B1: =LEN(A1)

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is there a way to count the charaters in a cell. For example, my spreadsheet
looks as so:

AA
DDD
SSSSS

Can a formula in col B show the following:

2
3
5

Thank you in advance.

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