I need to count the occurence of text in a range of cells (which .

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I need to count the occurence of a character (i.e. a comma (,)) in a range of
cells. Each comma represents a value of one and may occur more than once in a
cell. Then I need to have the total sum of commas found. Thanks in advance.
Brenda.
 
One way, array-entered (CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER or CMD-RETURN):

Assuming your range is named rng,

=SUM(LEN(rng)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(rng,",","")))
 
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