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Old 07-08-2006, 05:56 AM
Waj Waj is offline
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Counting how many times specific character appears in range?

how can i count all the words in a range that are starting with a specific letter?

for e.g. i want to know how many words are starting with 'W'

waj
arw
was

The result should come out as "2"

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Old 07-28-2006, 01:50 PM
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try this,

=COUNTIF([data range],"w"&"*")
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