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Excel count cells with text or numbers!

7 Ways to Count in Excel - Examples

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Excel has a COUNT function, which counts numbers only.

If you need to count all types of data, use COUNTA. See my top 7 ways to count in Excel, including formulas that count cells based on specific criteria, or just the visible rows in a filtered list.

How do i count cells with text in excel?

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And check out the "Down the Rabbit Hole" section, for extra tips!

Video: 7 Ways to Count in Excel

To see a quick overview of 7 ways to get a total count of cells in Excel, watch my 77-second video.

There are written steps for each count function example, below the video.

1) Count Numbers - COUNT

The COUNT function will count cells that contain numbers.

For example, in the list shown below, there are 2 cells with numbers -- A2 and A4 (dates are stored as numbers in Excel).

To count the numbers, I used this COUNT formula in cell C2:

=COUNT(A2:A5)

The formula result is 2, because the text value and blank cell are not counted.

2) Count All Data - COUNTA

The Excel COUNTA function w

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