If you would like to find out how many occurrences of the same number occur in a column in Excel, keep reading.

Example

1111155555555666666666666 (vertical column, although not depicted here)

1's=50

5's=8

6's=12

We have merged multiple columns into a single column totalling 5000 and we have sorted them numerically, but there are just too many to manually count.

So, if the numbers are different cells in a column and if the total no. of rows is 5000. We can use this formula:

=countif(a1:a5000,"1")

In case of a whole string or number in one cell we should use this (supposing the cell is E1):

=LEN(E1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(E1,"1",""))

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