Learn how to count how many times a characters appears in a cell in Excel. <br /><br />Use this formula. <br />=LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"#","")) <br /><br />The formula =LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"#","")) calculates the number of times the # character appears in cell A2. First, LEN(A2) determines the total number of characters in A2. Then, SUBSTITUTE(A2,"#","") removes all # characters, and LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"#","")) calculates the length of the text without them. Subtracting this length from the original length (LEN(A2)) gives the count of # characters in the cell. <br /><br /><br />excel count specific characters in cell,count specific characters in a cell,which function returns the number of characters in a text string in cell a1,excel count how many times a word appears in a cell,count number of characters excel,excel count specific words in column,excel count specific characters in cell range,excel count characters in cell <br />excel count specific characters in cell,count specific characters in a cell,count number of characters excel,excel count specific words in column,excel count characters in cell, <br />
