{"id":12122,"date":"2024-02-02T14:52:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learnexcelmacro.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:52:57","slug":"get-word-count-letter-count-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2024\/02\/get-word-count-letter-count-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get Word Count and Letter Count in Excel Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Getting a word Count of a String kept in a Cell, is not so difficult but sometimes you just don&#8217;t get it how to do it. So keeping that in mind, I wrote all possible ways to get Word Count of a String. You can get it by Excel Formula as well as UDF (User Defined Function).<br \/>\nWe will see both the methods one by one below:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>1. Get Word Count by Excel Formula<\/h3>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,&#8221; &#8220;,&#8221;&#8221;))+1<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A1: <\/strong>Cell Address, Where your String is there.<\/p>\n<h3>Note:<\/h3>\n<p>Here in this Formula, the limitation is that if there are more than One spaces between two words then the Spaces will also be counted as a Word and the Count will not be proper.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>2. Get Word Count by User Defined Function (UDF) Macro<\/h3>\n<p>Put the below code in Regular Module of your Workbook.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-vbnet\">Function GetWordCount(Cell As Range)\n    GetWordCount = UBound(Split(Cell.Value, \" \")) + 1\nEnd Function<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Now you can use the below Formula to get the Word Count<br \/>\n<strong>=GetWordCount(Cell Address)<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>3. Get Letter Count in Excel Formula<\/h3>\n<p><strong>=LEN(A1)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A1: <\/strong>Cell Address, Where your String is there.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Note:<\/h3>\n<p>This will return the total count of letters in that cell, including spaces as well.<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, Getting a word Count of a String kept in a Cell, is not so difficult but sometimes you just don&#8217;t get it how to do it. So keeping that in mind, I wrote all possible ways to get Word Count of a String. 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