Find occurrence count of a number in Excel

Question

I have a list of Excel data set up like this.

Items
1, 11, 3
4, 5, 6
7, 9, 12
15, 13, 4
7, 8, 9, 10, 1
14
1, 3, 7, 9

I want to make a count of each occurring number so that I end up with a result like this:

Items   A2 Column
1           2
2           0
3           2
4           2
5           1

And so on. Are there any formulas I can use to count the frequency of each number? I've tried using the COUNTIF function, but the formula will often come out as 0 because it can't read each number separately in the cells. Using a Pivot Table created the same results as well.

Answer 1

First split those integer values into their own cell: Data>>TextToColumns>>Delimited>>Comma>>OK

Second set up a table where 1 through whatever is listed in the rows, then you can use countif() to get the counts.

=COUNTIF($A$2:$E$8,A14)

A14 is the first cell in your list of cells numbered from 1 to whatever, and $A$2:$E$8 is the set of cells produced by Text To Columns. You will have what you need if you copy it down to each row in your list of 1 to whatever.