SteveT, here is one way,
=COUNTA(A1:A20)-COUNTIF(A1:A20,"n")

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"SteveT" wrote in message
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I have a range of cells with various values (dates, letter N, letter P).
I
want to count the number of cells within the range that don't have the
letter
N. I don't want to add contents, just get the number of cells that
contain a
value. Can someone tell me how this is done?
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Thanks,
Steve