Blanks counted when highlighting group of cells
 

When I highlight a group of cells that include values and blanks, the "count"
function that shows up at the bottom of the screen counts the blanks as well
as the values. I know if I use "text to cloumns" on the column, it will
clear out the blanks, but is there a faster way? I have alot of columns and
I'd hate to have to do "text to column" on each one. I only want to count
the values in each column.
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mm

Blanks counted when highlighting group of cells
 

mm,

Use COUNTA instead of COUNT. COUNTA only looks at cells that are not empty.

"marchettimama" wrote:

When I highlight a group of cells that include values and blanks, the "count"
function that shows up at the bottom of the screen counts the blanks as well
as the values. I know if I use "text to cloumns" on the column, it will
clear out the blanks, but is there a faster way? I have alot of columns and
I'd hate to have to do "text to column" on each one. I only want to count
the values in each column.
--
mm

Blanks counted when highlighting group of cells
 

An alternative to try it as-is, something like this in B2:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A10<""))

The expression will count only the non blank cells
ie it'll exclude real blank cells and cells with "" (zero length null
strings)
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Max
Singapore
http://savefile.com/projects/236895
xdemechanik
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"marchettimama" wrote:
When I highlight a group of cells that include values and blanks, the "count"
function that shows up at the bottom of the screen counts the blanks as well
as the values. I know if I use "text to cloumns" on the column, it will
clear out the blanks, but is there a faster way? I have alot of columns and
I'd hate to have to do "text to column" on each one. I only want to count
the values in each column.
--
mm