>Why then you would not use OCCURS function? Do you want to make it harder than is seems? <g>

Nope. If you handed me a piece of paper with that on it, I would have erased all the non-F letters to allow me to see just the Fs. Then it would be easy to count them. Even if you try to scan across and count the Fs humans still fail. Once there are no other letters, it's a piece of cake to count them.

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>>But we're supposed to be programmers. Use our programmer brains.
>>
>>A="FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE" + ;
>>"SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI" + ;
>>"FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH " + ;
>>"THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS"
>>
>>?LENC(CHRTRAN(M.A," ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",SPACE(0)))
>>
>>
>>>>6? - Yes.
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>>>...................... 3?
>>>
>>>WRONG, THERE ARE 6-- no joke.
>>>READ IT AGAIN !
>>>
>>>Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.
>>>
>>>
>>>The reasoning behind is further down.
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>>>The brain cannot process "OF".
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>>>Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!
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>>>Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.
>>>Three is normal, four is quite rare.
>>>
>>>Send this to your friends.
>>>It will drive them crazy.! And keep them occupied for several
>>>minutes..!