How to count words? There is no longer a need to send telegrams, and the need to count words seldom arises. However, this is a nice opportunity to try out how to use the TEXTSPLIT function in combination with some other Excel functions. Who knows, maybe this will be useful to you one day? In honor of Pink Floyd, let’s count the words in the song “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”.
The TEXTJOIN function is one of the newer ones, until Office 2019 exclusively available to Microsoft 365 subscribers, and it allows joining multiple strings into one by specifying them and then defining delimiters and the option to ignore those that are empty. Since august, the TEXTSPLIT function appeared, and its purpose is to split strings. How to use this function you will find out in the “recipe” that follows…