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February 2nd, 2010, 05:33 PM
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count number of cells
What is the formula to count the number of cells that start with a particular
character? What I really want to do is count how the number of cells in a column that start with a through e. I have tried several things but can't quite come up with the magic formula. thanks for your help. 
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February 2nd, 2010, 06:01 PM
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count number of cells
=COUNTIF(A1:A20,"A*")+COUNTIF(A1:A20,"B*")+COUNTIF (A1:A20,"C*")+COUNTIF(A1:A20,"D*")+COUNTIF(A1:A20, "E*")
-- David Biddulph "tagout" wrote in message ... What is the formula to count the number of cells that start with a particular character? What I really want to do is count how the number of cells in a column that start with a through e. I have tried several things but can't quite come up with the magic formula. thanks for your help.
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February 4th, 2010, 06:14 PM
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count number of cells
The COUNTIF Function should be used for that.
When using the Countif: Countif(Select all the cells you want to review, What is the criteria you want to count, e.g: "e*") Hope this helps, Vicente "tagout" wrote: What is the formula to count the number of cells that start with a particular character? What I really want to do is count how the number of cells in a column that start with a through e. I have tried several things but can't quite come up with the magic formula. thanks for your help.
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