When Excel doesn’t recognize empty cells correctly

Enno asked me the following:
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When I value-copy ranges where the If-function was used with a return value of "" (empty string), the cells are not blank, hence ISBLANK() = FALSE.
Could you add a feature to remove empty strings?
..."
Well, you can do this already with ASAP Utilities, although you cannot find it in the description of [...]

Count the occurrences of a character in a cell

Just got a question that I found interesting to mention here:
I am looking for following feature in ASAP Utilities:
Count number of user specified characters in a cell. e.g. I have a cell that has values "a,b,c,d,e". I would like to have a utility that tells me either
a. there are 4 "," characters
b. simply tell me [...]