Counting up characters in excel

[springy2003]

I am not sure if you can do this in excel, but can you count up characters??

For example,
Cell A1 value=A
Cell A2 value=W
Cell A3 value=A
Cell A4 value=W
Cell A5 value=A
Cell A6 value=A

Is there anyway of counting how many As there are, and not counting the W.
Thank You.

 

[carrr]

=countif(A1:A6,"A&quot

 

[springy2003]

Thanks so much carrr.