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Count Cells in Excel

In Excel, we can count cells in many ways using different functions. Cells can be counted for their numerical values, a criteria or we can count cells with a specific text.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to count cells in Excel. There are many ways to count cells in Excel. We may specify a criteria, count cells with text, or we may want to count the cells that are not blank. Microsoft Excel 2021 is used.

The functions discussed work for a range of cells.

FunctionPurpose
COUNTCounting the cell with numbers or numerical values.
COUNTACounting cells that are not blank.
COUNTBLANKCounting cells that are blank.
COUNTIFCounting cells that meet a given criteria for a cell range.
COUNTIFSCounting cells for multiple criteria for multiple cell ranges.
Counting Cells

Count cells with numbers

We use COUNT function to count cells. This function only count cells with numbers, blank cells and cells with alphabets are not counted.

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Count cells that are not blank

COUNTA function can be used to count cells that are not blank. The function counts cells with every type of data and that includes errors.

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Count Cells that are blank

COUNTBLANK function is used to count the cells that are blank.

Count Cells with text

To count cells with text, we use COUNTIF, this function uses a criteria and a cell range. We use text in the criteria.

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Count cells with a given condition or criteria

COUNTIF is used for counting cells with a specified criteria. We enter criteria and a range of cells to count the cells. Only the cells that meet the criteria are counted.

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Count Cells with multiple conditions or criteria

This function is very similar to the previous one. COUNTIFS is used to count cells that have multiple criteria, we can have multiple ranges of cell for multiple criteria.

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