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Counting Multiple Occurrences of Text in a Cell

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bentleybob Counting Multiple Occurrences... 04-30-2011, 02:44 PM

arthurbr Re: Counting Multiple... 04-30-2011, 03:01 PM

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bentleybob Re: Counting Multiple... 04-30-2011, 03:47 PM

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bentleybob Re: Counting Multiple... 05-02-2011, 01:44 PM

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Counting Multiple Occurrences of Text in a Cell

Looking for the most efficient way to determine the position of the LAST occurrence of specific text in a cell. So, if A1 contained AbcdefgAhijklmAnopqrstAuvwxyAz, and my criterion was "A", then I would like the formula in B1 to return 29.

It's annoying that neither FIND nor SEARCH has an "occurrence" option. I can build a compund formula using multiple uses of FIND, but it's hugely inefficient since I don't know what the maximum number of occurrences will be.

Thanks in advance.

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