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    find number of times a letter or a number appears in a column

    I have letters and numbers in cells and want to count the number of times that a particular letter or number appears in the column of cells.
    Example: I know that there are 9 C's in the list below. I want to count the number of times that the number 1 shows up in the list, or the number 2, etc. What formula would work best for this function?

    C1-02
    C1-03
    C1-04
    C1-05
    C1-06
    C2-08
    C2-07
    C2-14
    C1-09

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    Re: find number of times a letter or a number appears in a column

    Hi Dcoates,

    If you want a count of how many cells contain the letter "C", you could use:

    =COUNTIF(A1:A9,"*c*")

    However, this will only count each cell once. If a cell has three C's in it, the total will only reflect one. If you need to count all instances of a letter or number, the following array formula might help (confirm using CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER, not just ENTER):

    =SUM(LEN(A1:A9)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A9,"C","")))

    Note that this formula is case sensitive, while the first is not.

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    Re: find number of times a letter or a number appears in a column

    Fantastic! That saved so much time for me. Thanks.

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