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    Question Counting words............

    How can I give the total of how many times a word appears in a column?
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    JeremyA

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    Don Guillett
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    Re: Counting words............

    have a look at
    =COUNTIF(

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smokey_Vol
    How can I give the total of how many times a word appears in a column?
    Assuming your column range is A1:A100, you can use this

    =countif(A1:A100,"word_that_needs_to_be_counted") OR

    if the word that you want to count is, say, in Cell B1, the above formula can be modified to be

    =countif(A1:A100,"*"&B1&"*")

    Hope this is what you looking for.

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    BenjieLop
    Houston, TX

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