Manuals/calci/COUNTA

COUNTA (v1, v2...)

• Where v1, v2….   are arguments.

• COUNTA() returns the count of non-empty cells, and values within the list of arguments.

• Empty cells and text values in the array or reference are ignored.

Description

COUNTA(v1,v2....)

Consider columns A1 to A8 contain 3 numbers. COUNTA(A1:A8) returns 3 as a result.

COUNTA((A1:A8),"SUN",13) returns 5 as a result.

COUNT(1..100,5,TRUE) returns 102 as a result. Logical value 'TRUE' is also counted.

COUNT(1..100,5,TRUE,"ONE") returns 103 as a result.

• Arguments can be numbers, dates, text representation of a numbers, logical values, error values or empty text("").

• Empty cells and text values are not counted.

• COUNT() can be used to count the number of cells of all type of values excluding logical values, text and error values.

• COUNTIF() can be used to count the number of cells that satisfy the given criteria.

Examples

For better understanding of COUNTA() function, consider the below table that contains different types of data in various columns.

Sales	4
23/8/2009	3
			0
22
52.69			0
TRUE
#NUM!

=COUNTA(A1:A7) : Counts the number of cells that contain numbers in the cells A1 to A7, returns 6 as a result.

=COUNTA(A4:A7, 2) : Counts the number of cells that contain numbers in the cells A4 to A7 and number '2', returns 5 as a result.

=COUNTA(B1:B5,"A",11) : Counts the number of cells that contain numbers in the cells B1 to B5 , text value "A" and number '11', returns 4 as a result.

See Also

• COUNT

• COUNTIF

References

• List of Aggregate Functions
• COUNTA