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Ignoring Cells with Only Spaces
I'm trying to use the COUNTA function, but I need it to ignore cells that
contain ONLY spaces. I don't want to ignore cells that merely begin or end with a space, and I don't know how many spaces may be present in the cells I do want to ignore. Can anyone please help? Thanks, Heliocracy |
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Ignoring Cells with Only Spaces
=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"* ")
"Heliocracy" wrote: I'm trying to use the COUNTA function, but I need it to ignore cells that contain ONLY spaces. I don't want to ignore cells that merely begin or end with a space, and I don't know how many spaces may be present in the cells I do want to ignore. Can anyone please help? Thanks, Heliocracy |
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Ignoring Cells with Only Spaces
That appears to do the opposite of what I'm asking.
If cell A1=" ", COUNTIF(A1,"* ") returns a 1. I need a formula to return a zero if there are only spaces in cell A1. Thanks. "Heliocracy" wrote: I'm trying to use the COUNTA function, but I need it to ignore cells that contain ONLY spaces. I don't want to ignore cells that merely begin or end with a space, and I don't know how many spaces may be present in the cells I do want to ignore. Can anyone please help? Thanks, Heliocracy |
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Ignoring Cells with Only Spaces
Try something like this:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(TRIM(A1:A10))<0)) Does that help? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "Heliocracy" wrote: I'm trying to use the COUNTA function, but I need it to ignore cells that contain ONLY spaces. I don't want to ignore cells that merely begin or end with a space, and I don't know how many spaces may be present in the cells I do want to ignore. Can anyone please help? Thanks, Heliocracy |
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Ignoring Cells with Only Spaces
Yes, that does appear to do it. Thanks.
"Ron Coderre" wrote: Try something like this: =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(TRIM(A1:A10))<0)) Does that help? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "Heliocracy" wrote: I'm trying to use the COUNTA function, but I need it to ignore cells that contain ONLY spaces. I don't want to ignore cells that merely begin or end with a space, and I don't know how many spaces may be present in the cells I do want to ignore. Can anyone please help? Thanks, Heliocracy |
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Ignoring Cells with Only Spaces
I'm glad that worked for you....and thanks for the feedback.
*********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "Heliocracy" wrote: Yes, that does appear to do it. Thanks. "Ron Coderre" wrote: Try something like this: =SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(TRIM(A1:A10))<0)) Does that help? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "Heliocracy" wrote: I'm trying to use the COUNTA function, but I need it to ignore cells that contain ONLY spaces. I don't want to ignore cells that merely begin or end with a space, and I don't know how many spaces may be present in the cells I do want to ignore. Can anyone please help? Thanks, Heliocracy |
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