Thankfully, Microsoft Excel's COUNTIF formula swoops in to save the day. It lets you count cells based on specific text or conditions, turning your spreadsheet chaos into organized data magic.

If you do, Excel will give you a circular reference warning. Type this function in the cell, including the quotation marks but excluding the final period: =COUNTIF (cell range, "phrase").

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.