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I am designing a spreadsheet and cannot figure out the formula to return a
number for how many times a word has been used in a range of cells. Please
help.
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SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH("<word to search for",<range)))


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I am designing a spreadsheet and cannot figure out the formula to return a
number for how many times a word has been used in a range of cells. Please
help.

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