count occurences of a character in a colume

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Im sure there is an easy way, I cant find it though.
How could I count all cells in a colume where the value was X
this is excel 2007

thanks

Craig

 

[Dave Peterson]

=countif(a:a,"x")
is one way.

Debra Dalgleish has a bunch of "counting" function descriptions here:
http://contextures.com/xlFunctions04.html

And a bunch more notes for "sum" functions here:
http://contextures.com/xlFunctions01.html