In Microsoft Excel, you are not just able to count characters in a single/multiple cell, but also specific characters in a cell or range of cells.

Click one of the column headers in the document that has values. The word "Count" appears in the status bar's bottom right corner. The number of cells that contain values appears next to that word.

Counting cells in Excel using the COUNT function is very easy, so if you want to learn how to do it, read this post to learn all about it.

Visual Basic for Applications, also called VBA, can count line numbers by counting the number of line-feed characters in a cell.

Counting records or values in Microsoft Excel is easy. Counting individual cells by their fill color definitely isn't. Using an old function and a matrix tames the problem.