Count cells that contain any text

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I want to count the cells that contain anything within a range  Any cell that contain text  or numbers or something else should do a plus one in my result-cell   I found this function   countif range  criteria    but this doesn t work for me  because I don t know what to type in the criteria  How can I do this

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You can pass   lt  gt    including the quotes  as the parameter for criteria   This basically says  as long as its not empty blank  count it   I believe this is what you want    COUNTIF A1 A10    lt  gt       Otherwise you can use CountA as Scott suggests

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If you have cells with something like     and don t want to count them  you have to subtract number of empty cells from total number of cell by formula like   row G101 -row G4  1-countblank G4 G101    In case of 2-dimensional array it would be    row G101 -row A4  1   column G101 -column A4  1 -countblank A4 G101    Tested at google docs

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COUNTIF function will only count cells that contain numbers in your specified range   COUNTA range  will count all values in the list of arguments  Text entries and numbers are counted  even when they contain an empty string of length 0   Example   Function in A7  COUNTA A1 A6   Range   A1 a  A2 b  A3 banana  A4 42  A5  A6  A7 4 -  result  Google spreadsheet function list contains a list of all available functions for future reference https   support google com drive table 25273 hl en

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The criterium should be      and not   lt  gt   because the latter will also count formulas that contain empty results  like     So the simplest formula would be   COUNTIF Range

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Sample file    Note    Tried to find the formula for counting non-blank cells      is a blank cell  without a need to use data twice  The solution for goolge-spreadhseet   ARRAYFORMULA SUM IFERROR IF data    0 1  1     For excel   SUM IFERROR IF data    0 1  1    should work  press Ctrl Shift Enter in the formula

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COUNTIF function can count cell which specific condition where as COUNTA will count all cell which contain any value  Example  Function in A7   COUNTA A1 A6   Range   A1  a  A2  b  A3  banana  A4  42  A5   A6   A7  4  result

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