{"id":12106,"date":"2011-12-16T18:19:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learnexcelmacro.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2011-12-16T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:19:23","slug":"count-function-and-counta-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2011\/12\/count-function-and-counta-function\/","title":{"rendered":"COUNT and COUNTA Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>COUNT():<\/h2>\n<p>COUNT is a Excel inbuilt formula. It takes <strong>CELL RANGE<\/strong> as an input and give the total count of the Cells which are having Numeric Values.<br \/>\n<strong>Important:<\/strong> COUNT counts only those cells which are having &#8220;Numeric&#8221; Values. It ignores those cell which are having non-numeric values.<br \/>\n<strong>Syntax:<\/strong> =COUNT(Cell Range)<br \/>\n<strong>Input Parameter:<\/strong> Cell or Cell Range (&#8220;A1:B2&#8221;) or (&#8220;A1&#8221;)<br \/>\n<strong>Output:<\/strong> Number of Cell which are having <strong>only Numeric values<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you want to count all the cell number which are NOT EMPTY; no matter what value they have, then you can use <strong>COUNTA()<\/strong> function.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h2>COUNTA():<\/h2>\n<p>COUNTA is a Excel inbuilt formula similar to COUNT. 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