Count Tally marks

[ashima_singh]

Hi
I have made a spreadsheet and now I am facing an issue in counting the number of tally marks in a column.
is it possible to put some formula??

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[dominicb]

Good morning ashima_singh

How have you made the tally marks?
Are they hand-written? If so, then you are probably out of luck.

If not, you need to supply a bit more information.

DominicB

[Pete_UK]

You could use COUNTIF to count the pipe characters, but I'm not sure how you have done the horizontal lines - is that using Strikeout?

Pete

[Kaper]

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[Damz77]

If horizontal lines are done using strikeout you need to first use Ctrl+Find and go for options. And change the format of strikeout to may be five vertical lines. Afterwards you can use len or countif function.

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[ashima_singh]

yes it is using strikeout. I have been able to get the desired result. Thanks for the help.

[ashima_singh]

thank you for the information