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counting characters in a cell 2

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dreadnaught

dreadnaught

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Aug 1, 2001
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I am looking for the formula to count the number of characters in a specific cell. Example a cell containing "HELLO" would return a value of 5. Can anyone help?
 
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if cell A1 contained "Hello" then this formula will return the character count

in B1

=len(a1)
 
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Use

=LEN(text)

where text is the reference to the cell containing the text string you want to count.
 
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