I need Help with a count cell text formula

[Excel ??]

Dear all, can anyone please please give me a formula or how do I add cells
that contatin text not numbers? I want to be able to add each cell that
contains text and for those that are blank of course not to be added to my
sum. thank you all I hope I made sense.

 

[Mike H]

Try this

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISTEXT(A1:A100)))

Mike

 

[Dave Peterson]

Another:

=counta(a1:b99) - count(a1:b99)

=counta() will count all the non-empty cells (even cells with formulas that
evaluate to "")

=count() will count the numeric cells.

 

[RagDyer]

This will count TEXT, *including* nulls ( "", zero length strings):

=COUNTIF(A:A,"*")

This will *not* count nulls:

=COUNTIF(A:A,"*?")

 

[Shane Devenshire]

I suspect you mean count not sum:

=COUNTA(A1:A9)

But if the cells contain numbers this will also count them. Don't know if
that is an issue?