Counting Items

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jakobshavn Isbrae
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I agree with your judgement on this. I was using an additional column with
len(a1) in the column. I was then using countif to count how many items in
this additional column were greater than zero.

Rick's single equation is a whole lot easier.

and by the way thanks to everyone who took the time to help me out on a
Sunday.
 
Jakobshavn Isbrae said:
How can I count the number of items in a column whose length exceeds zero?
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Most efficient,

=ROWS(Range)*COLUMNS(Range)-COUNTBLANK(Range)

This will count every cell except truly blank cells (in the ISBLANK
sense) and cells evaluating to "". If you want to count only text
cells with 1 or more characters and cells containing numbers, try

=COUNT(Range)+COUNTIF(Range,"?*")
 
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