If you want to also skip blanks, try this:
=COUNTA(A1:A100)-SUM(COUNTIF(A1:A100,{"NEW","CLOSED","MONITOR"}))

Otherwise, to include blanks in the count:
=ROWS(A1:A100)-SUM(COUNTIF(A1:A100,{"NEW","CLOSED","MONITOR"}))

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"Uggywuggy" wrote:

I'm trying to count the number of rows where a cell DOESN't equal a number of
values. I know this isn't the syntax but am looking for something as follows;

i.e. COUNTIF(A1:A100,"<NEW", "<CLOSED", "<MONITOR")