Related Functions
Purpose
Count the number of non-blank cells
Return value
A number representing non-blank cells.
Syntax
=COUNTA (value1, [value2], …)
Arguments
- value1 – An item, cell reference, or range.
- value2 – [optional] An item, cell reference, or range.
Usage notes
Use the COUNTA function to count cells that contain numbers, text, logical values, error values, and empty text (“”). COUNTA does not count empty cells.
COUNTA will also count items. For example, =COUNTA(“a”,1,2,3,””) returns 5.
Use COUNT to count numeric values only.
Count can handle up to 255 values.
