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I would like to have Excell count an occurance of letters in a column, like
subtotal only without splitting the data, simply give a total of occurances
of a letter in the column. Can this be done?
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Yes this is possible

Use this array formula, use CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER instead of ENTER for the letter a

=SUM(LEN(A1:A10)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A10,"a","")))

More info about them you can find here
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/array.htm



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I would like to have Excell count an occurance of letters in a column, like
subtotal only without splitting the data, simply give a total of occurances
of a letter in the column. Can this be done?



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