Excell: count occurance of letters in a column

I would like to have Excell count an occurance of letters in a column, like
subtotal only without splitting the data, simply give a total of occurances
of a letter in the column. Can this be done?

Yes this is possible

Use this array formula, use CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER instead of ENTER for the letter a

=SUM(LEN(A1:A10)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A10,"a","")))

More info about them you can find here
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/array.htm



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"Ispencer" <Ispencer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6CDDC7EB-58F0-449B-9D6D-5F9F32C53803@microsoft.com...
>I would like to have Excell count an occurance of letters in a column, like
> subtotal only without splitting the data, simply give a total of occurances
> of a letter in the column. Can this be done?