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

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 ...

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 ...

Howdy colloquium experts:<BR><BR>I have a page of Charts-n-Graphs that pull their numbers from other sheets in the same workbook. Like this:<BR><BR>=COUNTIF(Closed!J2:J2000,"Activity")<BR><BR>Which ...

In statistics, quartiles are a method of breaking up a set of numbers into four equal parts. While this concept may seem simple, it actually requires some in-depth calculations to determine the exact ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2005. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. I’m puzzled. I use ...