Microsoft Excel is capable of counting the number of cells that contain numbers, so if there was a time when you chose to manually count cells, then such days are over. That is because it is possible ...

If your business uses spreadsheets, you may find it necessary to count the number of cells containing data in a worksheet. You might also need to determine how many cells are empty or if the values of ...

Q. I am trying to do some analysis regarding how many clients each of our departments serviced and how many of those clients were billed over a certain amount. I have our department/ client ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters ...

How to conditionally count the number of times any value occurs in Excel Your email has been sent Specifying the conditional count of a value sounds like a daunting task, but two Excel functions make ...

In this post, we will show you how to count colored cells in Microsoft Excel. While working with Excel, we often color-code cells to distinguish them from the rest of the data. This is good because ...

Excel is a powerful tool in the Microsoft Office suite of programs that allows you to create spreadsheets that can present a simple set of information or work through highly detailed and complicated ...

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Most Microsoft Excel users are familiar with Microsoft Excel’s COUNTIF() function, which allows you to count items conditionally. For instance, you might want a count of employees who joined the ...