COUNT function

 

Excel COUNT Function

Summary

The Excel COUNT function returns the count of values that are numbers generally cells that contain numbers. Values can be supplied as constants, cell references or ranges. 

Purpose

Count numbers Return value Count of numeric values

Syntax

=COUNT (value1, [value2], ...)

Arguments

• value1 - An item, cell reference or range.

• value2 - [optional] An item, cell reference or range.

Usage notes

The COUNT function returns the count of numeric values in the list of supplied arguments. Arguments can be individual items, cell references or ranges up to a total of 255 arguments. All numbers including negative values, percentages, dates, fractions and time are counted. Empty cells and text values are ignored.

The result will be


 First cell will be ignored because first cell contains text value and COUNT function does not count text, it only counts number.

This function also ignore Blank cells

The example below shows COUNT with 4 values. Three of the values are numbers, one is text so COUNT returns 3 because text is ignored in COUNT function.


Notes

• COUNT can handle up to 255 arguments.

• COUNT ignores the logical values TRUE and FALSE.

• COUNT ignores text values and empty cells.

Excel COUNT formula example

To count several non-contiguous ranges supply all of them to your Excel COUNT formula. For example, to count cells with numbers in columns A and F you can use formula like this:

=COUNT(A2:A4, F2:F7)                  



Things to remember

Below are the two simple rules by which the Excel COUNT function works:

1. If an argument(s) of an Excel Count formula is a cell reference or range only numbers, dates and times are counted. Blanks cells and cells containing anything but not a numeric value are ignored.

2. If you type values directly into the Excel COUNT arguments the following values are counted: numbers, dates, times, Boolean values (TRUE and FALSE) and text representation of numbers (i.e. a number enclosed in quotation marks like "5").

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