There may be times when your COUNTA formula gives an unexpected result. = COUNTA (B2:B8 ) Why isn’t my COUNTA formula working? In the example below, COUNTA returns a value of 6 non-empty cells since it counts the text, numbers and error values within the range B2 to B8. The COUNTA function will tell us exactly how many cells have data. This formula will count all non-blank cells within a range. The syntax of the COUNTA function is similar to COUNT: = COUNTA (value1. On the other hand, if we want to count all cells which contain data - whether text, numbers, formulas, Booleans, or error values - we would use the COUNTA function. Count cells with all types of data with COUNTA The COUNT function in Excel can also count the number of numeric values if they are listed within the formula itself, so =COUNT(0,4,17) would return a result of 3. The formula =COUNT(A1:A9) in cell F4 evaluates cells A1, A2, A3 and A4 as numbers, while the other cells are not and therefore a result of 4 is returned. See below for an example of all the above within a range. One clue is that Excel automatically aligns numeric values to the right, and text values to the left.ĭates, currencies and percentages and formulas which return a numeric result are also treated as numbers, while error values and Booleans are not. The reason for this is that cells which contain both text and numbers are treated as text by Excel. The value in cell A4 is obviously text and would not be counted, but A3 is also evaluated as text. The COUNT formula in cell C1 refers to the values in the range A1 to A4, and evaluates them as having two numeric values (6 and 15).
The following two examples explain how the COUNT function works. )Įach value, or argument, within the syntax refers to a cell, range or item in a list. It counts the number of cells within a range or list that are classified as numbers. As with many functions in Excel, the COUNT function is very specific.
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