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Excel formula that can count the words in the adjacent cell.

Excel formula that can count the words in the adjacent cell.
Say i put it in C2 it has to check B2 and give me the word count
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thanks
The counts seem to be wrong does it count spaces?
TRIM takes out excess spaces (just in case you have some at the end....or two spaces between a word) and then the formula counts the spaces left and adds 1 - that would normally give an accurate word count. Can you give an example that's not working, do you have some other character separating the words?

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Here are some examples....

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27385877.xls
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Can I suggest that the questioner provide some examples where it fails?
Hi All.. Thanks
The formula does work

Say i get the results as 96 words and when i paste the words into word file it shows me 105. So was wondering where are those 11 words difference coming from
Please post an example excel with this happening so we can have a look

Michael