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Try...

=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"*-*")

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"jpcblood" wrote:

I am creating a spreadsheet for a friend and need to be able to count all
rows in a column that contain the character "-". Here is what I am looking
to do.

Column A values

8:30/l
6:30
9-1
12-5
7:30

I need to know how many rows in column A have the format "#-#". In
otherwords, I need to know how many rows in column A that contain a "-".

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