In Excel find characters when multiple characters exist w/i a cel

I want to be able to find the number of occurrances of a particular
alpha-numeric character in a specified range when there can be multiple
characters in any one cell. (More over, I want to be able to find the number
of occurrances of an array of charcters within a specified range.)

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You count the characters, and then count the characters with the letter
substituted by "".

=LEN(B4)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B4,"A",""))

or

=(LEN(B4)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B4,"or","")))/LEN("or")

for a string orf characters


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"teacher-deburg" <teacher-deburg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I want to be able to find the number of occurrances of a particular
> alpha-numeric character in a specified range when there can be multiple
> characters in any one cell. (More over, I want to be able to find the
number
> of occurrances of an array of charcters within a specified range.)
>
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> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
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