count how often a letter appears within text

ROAR for R is equal to 2 . OAR for R is equal to 1. ORR for R is equal to 2.
The totals are R = 5, O = 3 and A = 2 appearances. What formulae can I use
to count how many times a letter appears in a text?

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At the most basic level, select the text and use Find/Replace to replace the
character with itself. Word will tell you how many occurrences were
replaced.

Cheers


"astrologer" wrote in message
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ROAR for R is equal to 2 . OAR for R is equal to 1. ORR for R is equal to
2.
The totals are R = 5, O = 3 and A = 2 appearances. What formulae can I
use
to count how many times a letter appears in a text?

"macropod" wrote:
At the most basic level, select the text and use Find/Replace to replace
the character with itself. Word will tell you how many occurrences were
replaced.


If you want to get more sophisticated, you'd need a macro. The one below
should do the trick, and append a table with the results at the end of the
document.

If you need help with macros, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm

Regards,
Klaus


Sub CodesFast()
Dim myString, myStringNew, myChar, myCode
Dim strOutput, HexString, myCharCount
myString = ActiveDocument.Content.Text
strOutput = ""
Do
myChar = left$(myString, 1)
myStringNew = Replace(myString, myChar, "", 1, _
Compa=vbBinaryCompare)
myCharCount = Len(myString) - Len(myStringNew)
myCode = AscW(myChar) And &HFFFF&
strOutput = strOutput & (myCode) & vbTab
StatusBar = myCode
HexString = Hex$(myCode)
While Len(HexString) 4
HexString = "0" & HexString
Wend
strOutput = strOutput & "U+" & HexString & vbTab
If myCode 31 Then
strOutput = strOutput & myChar
End If
strOutput = strOutput & vbTab & LTrim(str$(myCharCount))
strOutput = strOutput & vbCr
myString = myStringNew
Loop Until Len(myString) = 0
ActiveDocument.Content.Select
Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
Selection.Range.InsertParagraphBefore
Selection.TypeText Text:=" "
Selection.Expand Unit:=wdParagraph
With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="Codes"
.DefaultSorting = wdSortByName
.ShowHidden = False
End With
Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
Selection.TypeText strOutput
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="Codes"
Selection.ConvertToTable Separator:=wdSeparateByTabs
Selection.Sort ExcludeHeader:=False, FieldNumber:=1, _
SortFieldType:=wdSortFieldNumeric, _
SortOrder:=wdSortOrderAscending
Selection.Rows.ConvertToText Separator:=wdSeparateByTabs
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Codes").Delete
End Sub