[mso] Re: excel 2000 word count

Pam,

One easy way to do this would be to use the COUNTIF function with
wildcards. Let's say that the text you wanted to find was 'like' and you
wanted it to hit on each of the following:

-like
-Like
-LIKE
-I like a challenge
-we are both alike

What you would do is enter the following formula in any cell which is
NOT in Sheet1:

=COUNTIF(Sheet1!$1:$65536,"*like*")

This looks at every possible row in the sheet and checks for the text
'like' on a case-insensitive basis anywhere in each cell. If you are
only going to be using a smaller range within the sheet, you can
obviously reduce the size of the range checked. The asterisk at the
beginning allows for any text to precede the 'like' and the one at the
end allows for any text to follow it.

There's only one real drawback I can see with this, which is that if
there is a cell containing the target text more than once, the function
will only count it once. To put it another way, it reports the number of
cells which contain the target text, not the number of times the target
text occurs, of you see what I mean.

If this is a problem, let us know and we'll all put our thinking caps
on!

Ray Blake
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Pam
Sent: 26 July 2003 16:24
To: MicrosoftOffice
Subject: [mso] excel 2000 word count

Is there a way to count the instances of individual words and phrases on
a
single sheet of a workbook?  If it can do this can it print out the
results?

Thanks,
Pam

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