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I am looking to find out how many times each letter is listed

I need to know how many A's, B's, C', etc there are, because want to know how many times I need to cut out each letter for jersey's.


MIKE

NORMA

PAUL


M = 2

I = 1

K= 1

E = 1

N = 1

O = 1

A = 2

etc....


What formula do I use?

MacBook Air, macOS 15.1

Posted on Nov 24, 2024 9:17 AM

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Posted on Nov 24, 2024 11:36 AM

Use CONCAT to concatenate all the names into one long string and COUNTMATCHES to count the occurrence of each letter



Formula in Table 2::B1 =COUNTMATCHES(CONCAT(Table 1::B),$A1)

Fill down to complete the column

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I am looking to find out how many times each letter is listed

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