Hi to all of you and happy new year.
was wondering if you could kindly help me.
im trying to find a formula that counts "x" in cells based on words in another column.
example.

Column A1 Column A2
aaaaa x
aaaaa x
bbbbb x
bbbbb x
cccccc x
cccccc x
aaaaa x
aaaaa x

so example with aaaaa = 4

can someone please help. Dire straits here.

Thanks ever so much.