Counting the occurences

I am working on a large spreadsheet file, I have 23 columns where the cells within may be either A,B,C,D,E, or blank. I need a way to count this and put it into a pie chart or bar graph. I can't figure it out, help please?

Riomarde --
I would:

1) Define a named range for the table. For our purposes here, I call it
"test".
2) Count the letters like this:
A B
1 a =countif(test,a1)
2 b =countif(test,a2)

etc. Then, you can use the data for a pie chart.

Another approach -- if you have activated the 'data analysis tookpak', you
can use it to make a histogram in roughly the same way.

HTH.

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> I am working on a large spreadsheet file, I have 23 columns where the
> cells within may be either A,B,C,D,E, or blank. I need a way to count
> this and put it into a pie chart or bar graph. I can't figure it out,
> help please?
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