Count characters in a Cell

[manuprashar]

I am looking for a function that will help me count characters[text or numbers] in a cell

All help is appreciated,

regards,

 

[priya biradar]

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i want like this for every row .......

i hve use the formula =COUNTA but i m able to count only in one row not to others.

 

[dispelthemyth]

Do you want the number by row or total?

i.e. if you wanted by row and were always looking in each row (columns A to E, e.g. A1:E1) then type =counta(A1:E1) in cell F1

click enter and select F1 again, in the bottom right hand side of the cell double click and it will fill in the formula to the bottom, until the next blank cell in column E


if you want the toal for your entire range, i.e. A1:E5, then type =counta(A1:E5) in F1

to

the

way

you

want

5

<TBODY>
</TBODY>

i want like this for every row .......

i hve use the formula =COUNTA but i m able to count only in one row not to others.

 

[toddcbrf2]

More questions to do with this function and excel.

Hi everyone.

Looking for some advice here. Am trying to count the max characters in a group of cells and is fine with words but is showing some autoconversion that I don't want.
--When copy data from another exported text table like 12/7/2013, I don't want excel to change formatting to general, or date, etc so the character count stays at 9 with the actual character count rather than converting it to the normal date string.
--when this happens, the LEN counts the numbers and only shows 7 characters rather than showing 9 characters that are actually in the string

I know this is only partially to do with the LEN function and counting characters but it does have an impact that not sure if others have experienced or are aware of.

Thank you for all of your help!!!!!!!

Todd