What is the formula use to count text cells

A

allicat

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James W. Bond
Robert Wagner
Mark Brown
Carl. Boyle,
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I need a formula that will count a range of cells with names text only, like
the exaple above.
 
S

Sheeloo

Assuming your data is in A2:A100
then
=COUNTA(A2:A1100)
will give you the count of non-empty cells
and
=COUNT(A2:A1100)
will give you the count of cells with numbers
so
=COUNTA(A2:A1100) - COUNT(A2:A1100)
will give you the count of cells containing only TEXT
 
S

Sheeloo

Assuming your data is in A2:A100
then
=COUNTA(A2:A1100)
will give you the count of non-empty cells
and
=COUNT(A2:A1100)
will give you the count of cells with numbers
so
=COUNTA(A2:A1100) - COUNT(A2:A1100)
will give you the count of cells containing only TEXT
 
G

Gord Dibben

One method

Count all cells then subtract the number cells.

=COUNTA(A1:A7)-COUNT(A1:A7)


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
G

Gord Dibben

One method

Count all cells then subtract the number cells.

=COUNTA(A1:A7)-COUNT(A1:A7)


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
R

Ragdyer

This will count only text cells:

=COUNTIF(A:A,"*")

You should take note that this will also count "nulls" ( "" ) (zero length
strings),
which may be returned by formulas since XL considers these as TEXT.
 
R

Ragdyer

This will count only text cells:

=COUNTIF(A:A,"*")

You should take note that this will also count "nulls" ( "" ) (zero length
strings),
which may be returned by formulas since XL considers these as TEXT.
 

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