How do I capture a text cell as a value to be able to sum?

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I am trying to build a form in excel which requires the user to input TEXT in
a cell. I would like to sum the cells with the text to return a total number
of entries. Each text has the same value of 1 in the sum.
 
Hi

Try this:
=SUMPRODUCT((ISTEXT(E15:E23))*1)
where your range is E15:E23.

Andy.
 
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