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    Good afternoon people. Thank you in advance. These forums are awesome and I appreciate it.

    Have 1 sheet with 2 columns (columns D and F) have numbers in them, if more than 1 number, then commas are used to separate numbers, so 1 comma per 2 numbers, 2 commas per 3 numbers and so on.

    In a separate column, (column I), need formula that counts the total amount of numbers and then multiplies the sum by 1200 for each row going down.

    Example:

    Row 7 has column D with (139, 123, 343) and column F with (134), in column I, essentially would be (4 numbers times 1200 equals 4800)

    In other words each number, regardless of amounts in column D and F equal 1200 each equally.

    Thank you again in advance.

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    Re: 2 separate columns with numbers separated by commas and single numbers not, need sum

    Hi and welcome to the forum

    Assuming you are starting in row 1...
    =(LEN(D1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(D1,",",""))+1+LEN(F1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(F1,",",""))+1)*1200

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    Re: 2 separate columns with numbers separated by commas and single numbers not, need sum

    =((LEN(D7)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(D7,",",""))+1)+(LEN(F7)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(F7,",",""))+1))*1200


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    Re: 2 separate columns with numbers separated by commas and single numbers not, need sum

    Hey Trevor, seeing as we both gave (pretty much) the same answer, would you call that "data validation"? lol


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    Re: 2 separate columns with numbers separated by commas and single numbers not, need sum

    Thank you both for that. Excellent and most appreciated!!

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    Re: 2 separate columns with numbers separated by commas and single numbers not, need sum

    @FD: absolutely: of course, I used the cell references in the OP example, but, other than that ... Great minds think alike


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    Re: 2 separate columns with numbers separated by commas and single numbers not, need sum

    happy to help and thanks for the feedback

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