Gary and Bob, your solution is counting the "If" statement in the cells. I
have 1 name (Text) and 30 blank cells and your formula returns 31?


"Gary''s Student" wrote:

If A1 thru A10 contain either text or formulas returning a blank, then:

=COUNTA(A1:A10)-COUNTBLANK(A1:A10)

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Gary''s Student - gsnu200800


"Paul H" wrote:

I would like to count the text in a column, (each text would count as 1), the
column contains a simple "If" statement that will return either a name or a
blank. The text counting solutions I see in these posts also count the If
statement as 1.