To count the number of words in an Excel sheet, you have to count each cell and add them together to get a final count of the whole sheet. Read: How to use the DGET function in Microsoft Excel.

You may have a large column containing many different words or numbers in each cell and want to know how many distinct values are in that column.

Q. In Excel, is it possible to count the number of words in a cell? A. Because there is a space character between each word, you can count the words simply by counting the number of spaces between ...

Counting records or values in Microsoft Excel is easy. Counting individual cells by their fill color definitely isn't. Using an old function and a matrix tames the problem.

In Microsoft Excel, you are not just able to count characters in a single/multiple cell, but also specific characters in a cell or range of cells.