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Old May 5th, 2005, 09:16 PM
gbeard
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Is it possible to count how many times a space occurs in a cell? If I could
count the words in a cell...that would work as well.

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Old May 5th, 2005, 09:50 PM
JE McGimpsey
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One way:

=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))

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Is it possible to count how many times a space occurs in a cell? If I could
count the words in a cell...that would work as well.

 




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