Hi

Try this:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(A2:A500)))

Andy.

"cestbarb" wrote in message
...
I'll try to make this simple -
I have a large spreadsheet and I need to calculate how many occurrences of
a
statement, however I want to exclude from the count if a column contains
an
alpha character.
Example - a spreadsheet contains numbers in the first column (which I want
to count) and also alphanumeric (which I want to exclude). How do I make
up
the formula. To further complicate matters I'm doing the calculations on
another worksheet. So far I have COUNTIF'myworksheet'!$A2-$A500 -- here I
want to say count if it contains only a number --
Is this clear?
Thanks.