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| − | =DCOUNTA(A4:C10,"Salary",A1:C2) : Counts the number of cells in the 'Salary' column, in the range A4 to C10, for the employees whose Age<40 and Salary>5000. ''Displays 3'' as a result. | + | =DCOUNTA(A4:C10,"Salary",A1:C2) : Counts the number of non-blank cells in the 'Salary' column, in the range A4 to C10, for the employees whose Age<40 and Salary>5000. ''Displays 3'' as a result. |
| − | =DCOUNTA(A4:C10," | + | =DCOUNTA(A4:C10,"Salary",D1:D2) : Counts the number of non-blank cells in the 'Salary' column, in the range A4 to C10, for the employees whose Age>32.''Displays 3'' as a result. |
Revision as of 18:18, 7 November 2013
DCOUNTA(db, fld, cri)
- Where 'db' is the range of cells that makes up the list or database
- 'fld' shows which column is used in the function and
- 'cri' is the range of cells that contains the specified criteria.
- DCOUNTA() counts the non-blank cells in the column of a list or database that match the specified criteria.
Description
DCOUNTA(db, fld, cri)
It counts the nonblank cells in a column of a list or database that match conditions that we specify.
- The argument 'fld' is optional. If not mentioned, the function counts all the numbers from database that match the criteria.
- Criteria can be any range on the 'Calci' with minimum of one column and at least one row indicating the condition.
- The Criteria columns should not overlap the list of data.
- DCOUNT() can be used to count the number of cells from a list of database that are numbers and match a specified criteria.
Examples
Consider the following table with Employee names, Age and Salary columns. Row1 to Row3 has the criteria fields. Row4 to Row10 display the actual data.
| Name | Age | Salary | Age |
| <40 | >5000 | >32 | |
| >30 | |||
| Name | Age | Salary | |
| John | 34 | 5500 | |
| Bill | 35 | 6500 | |
| Clark | 29 | 7000 | |
| Bob | 45 | ||
| Susan | 37 | 4000 | |
| Jill | 45 | 8000 |
=DCOUNTA(A4:C10,"Salary",A1:C2) : Counts the number of non-blank cells in the 'Salary' column, in the range A4 to C10, for the employees whose Age<40 and Salary>5000. Displays 3 as a result.
=DCOUNTA(A4:C10,"Salary",D1:D2) : Counts the number of non-blank cells in the 'Salary' column, in the range A4 to C10, for the employees whose Age>32.Displays 3 as a result.