Manuals/calci/COUNTA

COUNTA (V1, V2...)

• Where V1, V2….   are arguments.

• It is used to count the number of cells which contains data in a range.

• It does not include empty cells but including error values and empty text.

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

Description

COUNTA(V1,V2....)

Examples

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

	Column1	Column2	Column3	Column4
Row1	Sales	6
Row2	10/10/2009	7
Row3				0
Row4	20
Row5	21.52			0
Row6	TRUE
Row7	#DIV/0!

=COUNTA (A2:A7) : Counts the number of cells that contain numbers in the cells A2 to A7, returns 6 as a result.

=COUNTA (B4:B7, 2) : Counts the number of cells that contain numbers in the cells B4 to B7 and number '2', returns 1 as a result.

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