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    Exclamation Counting instances of each item in column 1, where each cell in column 1 is a list of item

    Apologies.. my actual problem is more complex than what I posted originally.. Making edits in this post to reflect that

    If I have a list of delimiter-separated group of items in one column and a frequency of that list in second column , how can I use excel to get a count of each of the individual items.

    I know that this isn't self-explanatory. So here is an example:

    Given:

    Column A (list) Column B (Frequency of this list)
    apple, banana, apple 2
    apple, orange, banana, banana 4
    orange 3
    pineapple, orange, banana, apple 1

    I need a result like this:
    Item Count of item
    apple 9
    banana 11
    orange 8
    pineapple 1

    Can anyone help me with this?
    Last edited by priya.excel; 05-17-2012 at 09:13 PM. Reason: More details were needed in the problem

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