count repeating text?

derickc

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I've got about 600 columns and want to know how often each discreet cell (there are multiple occurences) repeats? Is there a simple way to count how many times "apples" shows up in the text? The problem is that I don't have a list where the text doesn't repeat. Thank you.
-dc
 

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ok, i got a list of the discreet text occurences with a pretty simple "if" function, but I can't get a CSE formula to work with =count(if(thearray=thecell,thearray))

I'm I using the CSE formula correctly? I'm doing C+S+E and getting 0. thanks.

-dc
 
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On 2002-08-13 13:15, derickc wrote:
I've got about 600 columns and want to know how often each discreet cell (there are multiple occurences) repeats? Is there a simple way to count how many times "apples" shows up in the text? The problem is that I don't have a list where the text doesn't repeat. Thank you.
-dc

I assume you mean 600 rows (not columns).

Create first a uniqe items list using Advanced Filter.

Let A from A2 on house the items of interest.

Let C from C2 on house the unique item list.

In D2 enter & copy down:

=COUNTIF($A$2:$A$600,C2)


Have a look at pivot tables which can give you the same results easily.
 
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