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.
| Column1 | Column2 | Column3 | Column4 | |
| Row1 | Name | Age | Salary | 3 |
| Row2 | <30 | |||
| Row3 | >40 | >5000 | ||
| Row4 | Name | Age | Salary | |
| Row5 | John | 34 | 5500 | |
| Row6 | Bill | 35 | 6500 | |
| Row7 | Clark | 29 | 7000 | |
| Row8 | Bob | 45 | 9000 | |
| Row9 | Susan | 37 | 4000 | |
| Row10 | Jill | 45 | 8000 |
