I have a column of dates... I am essentially counting the
amount of time that has elapsed from the point that the
case was assigned to the date it was completed... This I
figured out... What I want to do is count all of the
incomplete cases.. by way of counting the empty cells...
Please be aware that I am not a very advanced user..
please try to dumb it down.

Thanks,
Ron

I am going to assume you have all your cases in a table:

Example:

A B C
Case ID Start End
Case1 1/1/05 1/15/05
Case 2 1/1/05
Case 3 1/15/05 1/18/05

You can use a formula called CountA which counts all the cells that have a
value:

Counta(A2:a5)-CountA(c2:c5) would work
That is the total off all cases less the cases solved

Let me know if this works.

Regards,

Stewart Rogers

There is no table... basically I have it set up as column
A B C... A being in date... B being out date and C days
o/s what I want to track is cases o/s so any blank cells
in column B

Cheers,
Ron
-----Original Message-----
I am going to assume you have all your cases in a table:

Example:

A B C
Case ID Start End
Case1 1/1/05 1/15/05
Case 2 1/1/05
Case 3 1/15/05 1/18/05

You can use a formula called CountA which counts all the
cells that have a
value:

Counta(A2:a5)-CountA(c2:c5) would work
That is the total off all cases less the cases solved

Let me know if this works.

Regards,

Stewart Rogers

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Click in the cell where you want the answer and type =COUNTBLANK(B1:B5)
(replace B1:B5 with the range of cells containing your completion dates and
blanks).

Andrea Jones

"Ron" wrote:

I have a column of dates... I am essentially counting the
amount of time that has elapsed from the point that the
case was assigned to the date it was completed... This I
figured out... What I want to do is count all of the
incomplete cases.. by way of counting the empty cells...
Please be aware that I am not a very advanced user..
please try to dumb it down.

Thanks,
Ron

Andrea,
worked like a charm.... Awesome!!!!

Ron
-----Original Message-----
Click in the cell where you want the answer and type
=COUNTBLANK(B1:B5)
(replace B1:B5 with the range of cells containing your
completion dates and
blanks).

Andrea Jones

"Ron" wrote:

I have a column of dates... I am essentially counting
the
amount of time that has elapsed from the point that the
case was assigned to the date it was completed... This
I
figured out... What I want to do is count all of the
incomplete cases.. by way of counting the empty
cells...
Please be aware that I am not a very advanced user..
please try to dumb it down.

Thanks,
Ron

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