Counting occurrences of a character in a spreadsheet

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In this Excel tutorial you will teach yourself how to count occurences of a character in a spreadsheet.

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How to count occurrences of character in a string?

Let’s count how many of f character do you have in a A coulmn.

To do that just use below formula:

{=SUM(LEN(A:A)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A:A;”f”;””)))}

This is an array formula so remember to press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER combination.

Counting occurrences of a character in a spreadsheet may be useful for spreadsheets with unique text.

Also you may be interested in counting character which is related to your company/project and used as a your internal code.

In this example you will see how to count the number of cells with specific content in a range in clever way. You need only one formula to do this!

To count a number of cells with a text in a specific range you just need to use sumproduct function.

You can build formula like this:

=SUMPRODUCT(–ISTEXT(RANGE))

You can count a number of cells with a value as well with similar formula:

=SUMPRODUCT(–ISNUMBER(RANGE))

There are others functions you can use with this kind of formulas: