What is COUNT function in Excel?
The COUNT function is one of the Statistical functions of Excel.
It Counts the number of cells in a range that contains numbers.
We can find this function in Statistical category of the insert function Tab.
How to use COUNT function in excel
- Click on an empty cell (like F5).
2. Click on the fx icon (or press shift+F3).
3. In the insert function tab you will see all functions.
4. Select STATISTICAL category.
5. Select COUNT function.
6. Then select ok.
7. In the function arguments Tab you will see COUNT function.
8. Value1: value1,value2,.. are 1 to 255 arguments that can contain or refer to a
variety of different types of data, but only numbers are counted.
9. Value2: value1,value2,.. are 1 to 255 arguments that can contain or refer to a
variety of different types of data, but only numbers are counted.
10. You will see the results in the formula result section.
Examples of COUNT function in Excel
COUNT related functions
- Use COUNTA function to count the number of cells in a range that are not empty.
- Use COUNTBLANK function to count the number of empty cells in a specified range of cells.
- Use COUNTIF function to count the number of cells within a range that meet the given condition.
- Use COUNTIFS function to count the number of cells specified by a given set of conditions or criteria.
