>>>Why then you would not use OCCURS function? Do you want to make it harder than is seems? <g>
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>>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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>In the short text like this not all humans will fail. I counted them correctly.

I did too, by applying the same technique as the code. Then I asked myself why bother doing it manually?