Just use "<" rather than "<"""

Regards,
Fred.

"David" wrote in message
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Trying to count cells in the indicated cell that are not blank. This is
what
I tried, but it still counts blank cells.

=(COUNTIF(AB4,"<""")+COUNTIF(AG4,"<""")+COUNTIF( AL4,"<""")+COUNTIF(AQ4,"<"""))

Thanks