count text occurance in range

I am working in Excel 2003 and would like to enter a formula counting the
number of times a specific word (sometimes in a sentence) appears in a range
of cells. Does somebody know how ? Thank you !

Hi,
try

=COUNTIF(A10:A13,"aa*")

replace aa for the word you are looking for and change the range to fit your
needs
if this helps please click yes thanks

"Stehy" wrote:

I am working in Excel 2003 and would like to enter a formula counting the
number of times a specific word (sometimes in a sentence) appears in a range
of cells. Does somebody know how ? Thank you !

Hi,

Try this but note it isn't bullet proof. For example I set it up to look for
'word' and it will pick up all instances of that string in the range
including if it appears twice or more in a cell. Where it is weak is it will
also count.

Wordy, words etc

=SUMPRODUCT((LEN(A1:A10)-(LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A10,"word",""))))/LEN("word"))

Mike

"Stehy" wrote:

I am working in Excel 2003 and would like to enter a formula counting the
number of times a specific word (sometimes in a sentence) appears in a range
of cells. Does somebody know how ? Thank you !

Worked Like a champ!!! Thankyou very much!!! I wish I had came here 2 hours
ago!!!

"Eduardo" wrote:

Hi,
try

=COUNTIF(A10:A13,"aa*")

replace aa for the word you are looking for and change the range to fit your
needs
if this helps please click yes thanks

"Stehy" wrote:

I am working in Excel 2003 and would like to enter a formula counting the
number of times a specific word (sometimes in a sentence) appears in a range
of cells. Does somebody know how ? Thank you !