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How to count the number of spaces of text string in Excel?

Have you ever tried to count the number of spaces of text string in a cell? Of course, you can count them one by one manually, but, if there are multiple cells needed to be counted, this way will be tedious and time consuming. Today, I can talk about some formulas for dealing with this problem in Excel.

Count the number of all spaces of text string with formula

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Count the number of leading spaces of text string with formula


To get the number of all spaces among the text string, the following formula can help you, please do as this:

1. Enter this formula: =LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ",""))(A2 contains the text string that you want to count the spaces) into a blank cell, see screenshot:

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And then drag the fill handle over to the cells which you want to apply this formula, and all the spaces of a cell have been counted as follows:

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If you have Kutools for Excel, its COUNTCHAR function of Kutools Functions may help you quickly count the number of times a specific character (such as a specific letter, comma, space and so on) appears within a cell.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:

1. Click a cell where you want to put the result, B2, for example.

2. Then click Kutools > Kutools Functions > Statistical & Math > COUNTCHAR, see screenshot:

3. In the Function Arguments dialog box, click  111 button from the Within_text to select the cell that you want to get the number of the spaces, and then type the space bar once in the Find_text box, see screenshot:

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4. Then click OK button, you will get the number of spaces in the text string, and then drag the fill handle down to the cells which you want to apply this formula, all the spaces among the text strings have been counted at once. See screenshot:

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Click to know more about this COUNTCHAR function.

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The above formula can help you to count all spaces among the text string, but, if you just need to count the leading spaces of text string, I can introduce you another formula.

1. Please type this formula: =FIND(LEFT(TRIM(A2),1),A2)-1 (A2 contains the text string that you want to count the spaces) into a blank cell, see screenshot:

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2. Then drag the fill handle over to the range that you want to contain this formula, and then all the leading spaces before the text string have been counted, see screenshot:

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