How do I build a excel sheet that counts item in an inventory

any help would be greatly appricaited. thank you...

have a look in help index for COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTIF

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Don Guillett
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"kenny" <kenny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> any help would be greatly appricaited. thank you...

Kenny, we may need more info if is not what you want, with inventory list in
A1:A25 this will count how many times computer is in the list

=COUNTIF(A1:A25,"computer")
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Paul B
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"kenny" <kenny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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