I’d like to count the number of cells that have a value greater than 0. My COUNTIF function is not quite right. I’m sure this is a simple correction for the Loungers…please see cell H10. The formula would be more like =COUNTIF(B10:F10,>0). I’m expecting a value of 2 since 2003 and 2005 have values greater than zero. Thank you.
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Count if not (Excel XP)
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AskWoody LoungerNovember 15, 2005 at 6:10 pm #426373Viewing 0 reply threadsAuthorReplies-
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AskWoody LoungerNovember 15, 2005 at 8:16 pm #985289Thanks, mbarron. That’s all it needed! The subject of this post is a little misleading since I had originally been checking for a in the result cell, but I wasn’t sure how to write that in the function. I switched to a result of zero to make it quantifiable. Was also curious to know if I could check noncontiguous cells so that my formula was =COUNTIF(B10,D10,F10,”>0″) but it didn’t like that
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AskWoody LoungerNovember 15, 2005 at 8:32 pm #985292The COUNTIF function only works with a contiguous range. Even if you give a non-contiguous range a name (using Insert | Name | Define…), you cannot use the name in COUNTIF.
COUNTIF will ignore blank cells and text values, so perhaps you could use =COUNTIF(B10:F10,”>0″). And, of course, you can combine two or more COUNTIFs:=COUNTIF(B10:F10,”>0″)+COUNTIF(B15:F15,”>0″)
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WSJezza
AskWoody LoungerNovember 15, 2005 at 8:35 pm #985293I know you have solved your problem now but if, in future, you want to count spaces in a string (say, in A1 stating “Sarah Likes Excel”) you an use this formula:
=IF(LEN(TRIM(A1))=0,0,LEN(TRIM(A1))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,” “,””))+1) the result will be 2
or if you want to check if there is just a space in a cell:
=COUNTIF(B10:F10,” “) …….(where there is a space in between the inverted commas.
Hope this helps
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