How to count how often a word or a value occurs in Excel?
In some cases, you may need to count how often a word or a value occurs in a single cell or a specified range in Excel. With this article, you will get two methods of solving this problem with details.
Count how often a word/value occurs in a single cell or range with formula
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Count how often a word/value occurs in a single cell or range with formula
You can apply the following formula to count how often a word/value occurs in a single cell or a specified range in Excel.
1. For counting how often a word appears in a cell, please select a blank cell for placing the result, enter the below formula into it, then press the Enter key.
=SUMPRODUCT((LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,D1,"")))/LEN(D1))
For counting how often a word occurs in a range, you just need to change the cell reference to the range as the below screenshot shown.
=SUMPRODUCT((LEN(A2:A15)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2:A15,D1,"")))/LEN(D1))
Notes:
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The Count the number of a word formula of Kutools for Excel helps you easily count how often a word occurs in a cell or a range in Excel.
Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.
1. Select a blank cell to output the result, then click Kutools > Formula Helper > Formula Helper.
2. In the Formula Helper dialog box, please configure as follows.
Tips: You can check the Filter box, enter a corresponding value into the text box to filter this formula directly if you know the formula name.
Then you will get the result of how often a word occurs in a cell or range in Excel.
If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.
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