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How can I count the number of caracters including spaces in a microsoft excel
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Try...
=LEN(A2) Hope this helps! In article , Jan wrote: How can I count the number of caracters including spaces in a microsoft excel worksheet |
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Subject says cell, body says worksheet. I'll tackle the cell issue:
for a cell you can use the formula = LEN(A1) where A1 is the address of the cell with the text you need to find the number of characters for. "Jan" wrote: How can I count the number of caracters including spaces in a microsoft excel worksheet |
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There is a feature of the "BuiltIndocumentProperties" Property in VBA that
will supposedly return the "number of characters (with spaces)", but it does not respond in my XL97 installation. hth Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Jan" wrote: How can I count the number of caracters including spaces in a microsoft excel worksheet |
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Jan wrote: How can I count the number of caracters including spaces in a microsoft excel worksheet On a worksheet? Try: =SUM(LEN(Sheet1!1:32768))+SUM(LEN(Sheet1!32769:655 36)) This is an array formula, press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to enter it. Put the formula on a different sheet to the one you want to count so that you don't get a circular reference. And it takes a long time to run - be warned. Regards Steve |
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That is SO cool Steve................
and it also works with a RangeName......... =SUM(LEN(MyRangeName)) ......still entered as an ArrayFormula. Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 " wrote: Jan wrote: How can I count the number of caracters including spaces in a microsoft excel worksheet On a worksheet? Try: =SUM(LEN(Sheet1!1:32768))+SUM(LEN(Sheet1!32769:655 36)) This is an array formula, press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to enter it. Put the formula on a different sheet to the one you want to count so that you don't get a circular reference. And it takes a long time to run - be warned. Regards Steve |
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CLR wrote: That is SO cool Steve................ and it also works with a RangeName......... =SUM(LEN(MyRangeName)) ......still entered as an ArrayFormula. Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 Thanks Chuck =SUM(LEN(Sheet1!1:65536)) would have been nicer but Excel chickens out for some reason and throws a #NUM! error. Regards Steve |
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CLR - apparently all of the Properties listed as part of the
BuiltInDocumentProperties are not always available to all types of documents. First, to quote from the Help topic about it: "Container applications arent required to define values for every built-in document property. If Microsoft Excel doesnt define a value for one of the built-in document properties, reading the Value property for that document property causes an error." I experimented using the following code: Sub GetDocumentProperties() Dim rw As Integer Dim p As Object rw = 1 Worksheets("Sheet1").Activate Range("A1").Select On Error Resume Next For Each p In ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties Cells(rw, 1).Value = p.Name Cells(rw, 2).Value = p.Value If Err < 0 Then Cells(rw, 2) = "Error" Err.Clear End If rw = rw + 1 Next End Sub and I found that in Excel, these properties returned errors: Last Print Date (maybe because I've never printed this workbook) Total Editing Time Number of Pages Number of words Number of characters Number of bytes Number of lines Number of paragraphs Number of slides Number of notes Number of hidden Slides Number of multimedia clips Number of characters (with spaces) Many of those look like they'd be associated with Word or PowerPoint. "CLR" wrote: There is a feature of the "BuiltIndocumentProperties" Property in VBA that will supposedly return the "number of characters (with spaces)", but it does not respond in my XL97 installation. hth Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Jan" wrote: How can I count the number of caracters including spaces in a microsoft excel worksheet |
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Hi JL..........yeah, I had the same results..........what version of XL did
you use? I heard some of the later versions handle more of the items, and also that in the cases where XL does not automatically set some of the items, sometimes they can be force-set by code........I dunno......it's beyond me....... But Steve's thingy in this thread sure is a neat way to solve the OP's problem, huh......... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "JLatham" wrote: CLR - apparently all of the Properties listed as part of the BuiltInDocumentProperties are not always available to all types of documents. First, to quote from the Help topic about it: "Container applications arent required to define values for every built-in document property. If Microsoft Excel doesnt define a value for one of the built-in document properties, reading the Value property for that document property causes an error." I experimented using the following code: Sub GetDocumentProperties() Dim rw As Integer Dim p As Object rw = 1 Worksheets("Sheet1").Activate Range("A1").Select On Error Resume Next For Each p In ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties Cells(rw, 1).Value = p.Name Cells(rw, 2).Value = p.Value If Err < 0 Then Cells(rw, 2) = "Error" Err.Clear End If rw = rw + 1 Next End Sub and I found that in Excel, these properties returned errors: Last Print Date (maybe because I've never printed this workbook) Total Editing Time Number of Pages Number of words Number of characters Number of bytes Number of lines Number of paragraphs Number of slides Number of notes Number of hidden Slides Number of multimedia clips Number of characters (with spaces) Many of those look like they'd be associated with Word or PowerPoint. "CLR" wrote: There is a feature of the "BuiltIndocumentProperties" Property in VBA that will supposedly return the "number of characters (with spaces)", but it does not respond in my XL97 installation. hth Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Jan" wrote: How can I count the number of caracters including spaces in a microsoft excel worksheet |
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