Count number of cells with any value string or number in a column in Google Docs Spreadsheet

Question

I have several columns in  Google Spreadsheet    I would like to count how many cells have a value  number or string  and display that number at the top of the column   For example    Hello  World  123  Some string    The above column would give me the answer of  4   I have not managed to find a formula that does this

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In the cell you want your result to appear  use the following formula    COUNTIF A1 A200   lt  gt     That will count all cells which have a value and ignore all empty cells in the range of A1 to A200

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Shorter and dealing with a column  entire  not just a section of a column     COUNTA A A    COUNTA  Beware  a cell containing just a space would be included in the count

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The SUBTOTAL function can be used if you want to get the count respecting any filters you use on the page    SUBTOTAL 103  A1 A200   will help you get count of non-empty rows  respecting filters   103 - is similar to COUNTA  but ignores empty rows and also respects filters   Reference   SUBTOTAL function

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An additional trick beside using  COUNTIF      and  COUNTA      is    COUNTBLANK A2 C100    That will count all the empty cells   This is useful for    empty cells that doesn t contain data formula that return blank or null survey with missing answer fields which can be used for diff criterias

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You could also use  COUNTA A1 A200  which requires no conditions   From Google Support      COUNTA counts all values in a dataset  including those which appear   more than once and text values  including zero-length strings and   whitespace   To count unique values  use COUNTUNIQUE

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