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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns " "?
I would like to count a column which contains formulas, some of them return
values and some of them return " "(blank). I need to count for those return values and I tried to use counta but unsuccessful. Could someone pls help? Thanks in advance! Q from Fiona |
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Answer: How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns " "?
Hi Fiona,
To count cells that contain a formula that returns a value and exclude those that return a blank, you can use the Formula:
Formula:
Here are the steps:
This formula should give you the desired count result. Let me know if you have any questions or if there's anything else I can help you with.
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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns " "?
You want to count all the cells in a range that are "" if I understand
correctly, =COUNTIF(A1:A20,"") Obviously adjust the range to suit your needs, Regards, Alan. "Fiona" wrote in message ... I would like to count a column which contains formulas, some of them return values and some of them return " "(blank). I need to count for those return values and I tried to use counta but unsuccessful. Could someone pls help? Thanks in advance! Q from Fiona |
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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns "
Thanks Alan. Actually, I tried countif as well. Btw, I want the result is to
count the non-blank cells rather than the blank cells and because the blank cells actually contain formulas, so it doesn't allow me to ignore the blank cells. I tried to use countif(A1:A20,<" ") but unsuccessful too. Hope you can find another solution for me, thanks! Regards, Fiona "Alan" wrote: You want to count all the cells in a range that are "" if I understand correctly, =COUNTIF(A1:A20,"") Obviously adjust the range to suit your needs, Regards, Alan. "Fiona" wrote in message ... I would like to count a column which contains formulas, some of them return values and some of them return " "(blank). I need to count for those return values and I tried to use counta but unsuccessful. Could someone pls help? Thanks in advance! Q from Fiona |
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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns "
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=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20<"")) "Fiona" wrote: Thanks Alan. Actually, I tried countif as well. Btw, I want the result is to count the non-blank cells rather than the blank cells and because the blank cells actually contain formulas, so it doesn't allow me to ignore the blank cells. I tried to use countif(A1:A20,<" ") but unsuccessful too. Hope you can find another solution for me, thanks! Regards, Fiona "Alan" wrote: You want to count all the cells in a range that are "" if I understand correctly, =COUNTIF(A1:A20,"") Obviously adjust the range to suit your needs, Regards, Alan. "Fiona" wrote in message ... I would like to count a column which contains formulas, some of them return values and some of them return " "(blank). I need to count for those return values and I tried to use counta but unsuccessful. Could someone pls help? Thanks in advance! Q from Fiona |
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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns "
Dear Alok, the formula is not work as well. Here's what I want to do for your
ref.: Firstly, assuming all cells contain formulas. Some of them will display as a value and some of them will display as " ". Column A Row 1 May Row 2 Row 3 Alice Row 4 Row 5 Fiona I want the result to be 3 but now is 5. Kindly help! Regards Fiona "Alok" wrote: Try =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20<"")) "Fiona" wrote: Thanks Alan. Actually, I tried countif as well. Btw, I want the result is to count the non-blank cells rather than the blank cells and because the blank cells actually contain formulas, so it doesn't allow me to ignore the blank cells. I tried to use countif(A1:A20,<" ") but unsuccessful too. Hope you can find another solution for me, thanks! Regards, Fiona "Alan" wrote: You want to count all the cells in a range that are "" if I understand correctly, =COUNTIF(A1:A20,"") Obviously adjust the range to suit your needs, Regards, Alan. "Fiona" wrote in message ... I would like to count a column which contains formulas, some of them return values and some of them return " "(blank). I need to count for those return values and I tried to use counta but unsuccessful. Could someone pls help? Thanks in advance! Q from Fiona |
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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns "
Fiona,
I did not realize that what you were saying is that some formulas return " " (one space character. I though they return an empty string - that is "". To take care of this all that you need to do is to change the formula to =SUMPRODUCT(--(Trim(A1:A20)<"")) "Fiona" wrote: Dear Alok, the formula is not work as well. Here's what I want to do for your ref.: Firstly, assuming all cells contain formulas. Some of them will display as a value and some of them will display as " ". Column A Row 1 May Row 2 Row 3 Alice Row 4 Row 5 Fiona I want the result to be 3 but now is 5. Kindly help! Regards Fiona "Alok" wrote: Try =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20<"")) "Fiona" wrote: Thanks Alan. Actually, I tried countif as well. Btw, I want the result is to count the non-blank cells rather than the blank cells and because the blank cells actually contain formulas, so it doesn't allow me to ignore the blank cells. I tried to use countif(A1:A20,<" ") but unsuccessful too. Hope you can find another solution for me, thanks! Regards, Fiona "Alan" wrote: You want to count all the cells in a range that are "" if I understand correctly, =COUNTIF(A1:A20,"") Obviously adjust the range to suit your needs, Regards, Alan. "Fiona" wrote in message ... I would like to count a column which contains formulas, some of them return values and some of them return " "(blank). I need to count for those return values and I tried to use counta but unsuccessful. Could someone pls help? Thanks in advance! Q from Fiona |
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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns "
Dear Alok
Thanks! I made it! As what you said, I'm wrongly put " "(one space character) into my formulas. After I changed it to "", it works! Btw, could you pls explain me the formula about =sumproduct (how to use it) and the difference between with or without Trim? Many thanks! Fiona "Alok" wrote: Fiona, I did not realize that what you were saying is that some formulas return " " (one space character. I though they return an empty string - that is "". To take care of this all that you need to do is to change the formula to =SUMPRODUCT(--(Trim(A1:A20)<"")) "Fiona" wrote: Dear Alok, the formula is not work as well. Here's what I want to do for your ref.: Firstly, assuming all cells contain formulas. Some of them will display as a value and some of them will display as " ". Column A Row 1 May Row 2 Row 3 Alice Row 4 Row 5 Fiona I want the result to be 3 but now is 5. Kindly help! Regards Fiona "Alok" wrote: Try =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20<"")) "Fiona" wrote: Thanks Alan. Actually, I tried countif as well. Btw, I want the result is to count the non-blank cells rather than the blank cells and because the blank cells actually contain formulas, so it doesn't allow me to ignore the blank cells. I tried to use countif(A1:A20,<" ") but unsuccessful too. Hope you can find another solution for me, thanks! Regards, Fiona "Alan" wrote: You want to count all the cells in a range that are "" if I understand correctly, =COUNTIF(A1:A20,"") Obviously adjust the range to suit your needs, Regards, Alan. "Fiona" wrote in message ... I would like to count a column which contains formulas, some of them return values and some of them return " "(blank). I need to count for those return values and I tried to use counta but unsuccessful. Could someone pls help? Thanks in advance! Q from Fiona |
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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns "
The first formula
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20<"")) is overkill, COUNTIF will do it =COUNTIF(A1:A20,"<") but you do need it if you need to TRIM the cell values.The TRIM strips off leadinmg and trailing spaces, and so a cell that has no characters, and a cell with all space characters are both counted as empty. See http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html for a detailed explanation. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Fiona" wrote in message ... Dear Alok Thanks! I made it! As what you said, I'm wrongly put " "(one space character) into my formulas. After I changed it to "", it works! Btw, could you pls explain me the formula about =sumproduct (how to use it) and the difference between with or without Trim? Many thanks! Fiona "Alok" wrote: Fiona, I did not realize that what you were saying is that some formulas return " " (one space character. I though they return an empty string - that is "". To take care of this all that you need to do is to change the formula to =SUMPRODUCT(--(Trim(A1:A20)<"")) "Fiona" wrote: Dear Alok, the formula is not work as well. Here's what I want to do for your ref.: Firstly, assuming all cells contain formulas. Some of them will display as a value and some of them will display as " ". Column A Row 1 May Row 2 Row 3 Alice Row 4 Row 5 Fiona I want the result to be 3 but now is 5. Kindly help! Regards Fiona "Alok" wrote: Try =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20<"")) "Fiona" wrote: Thanks Alan. Actually, I tried countif as well. Btw, I want the result is to count the non-blank cells rather than the blank cells and because the blank cells actually contain formulas, so it doesn't allow me to ignore the blank cells. I tried to use countif(A1:A20,<" ") but unsuccessful too. Hope you can find another solution for me, thanks! Regards, Fiona "Alan" wrote: You want to count all the cells in a range that are "" if I understand correctly, =COUNTIF(A1:A20,"") Obviously adjust the range to suit your needs, Regards, Alan. "Fiona" wrote in message ... I would like to count a column which contains formulas, some of them return values and some of them return " "(blank). I need to count for those return values and I tried to use counta but unsuccessful. Could someone pls help? Thanks in advance! Q from Fiona |
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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns "
Bob Philips is wrong, the COUNTIF() function counts the matching text in the
cell range including those in formulas. I had a column with the same formula in each cell. The cell returned blank or "*". The countif() function gave 214 which was the number of cells containing the formula! - there were only 46 asterisks displayed from the formulas. |
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How to not count cells which contain a formula that returns "
Asterisks are used as wildcard characters, so you were probably
counting everything if you used asterisks in your COUNTIF formula. Use the tilde symbol ~ before the asterisk to tell Excel to treat it as a normal character. Hope this helps. Pete On Jan 27, 1:35*pm, jimster wrote: Bob Philips is wrong, *the COUNTIF() function counts the matching text in the cell range including those in formulas. I had a column with the same formula in each cell. *The cell returned blank or "*". The countif() function gave 214 which was the number of cells containing the formula! - there were only 46 asterisks displayed from the formulas. |
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