Excel COUNTA Function

What is COUNTA function in Excel?

The COUNTA function is one of the Statistical functions of Excel.

It Counts the number of cells in a range that are not empty.

We can find this function in Statistical category of the insert function Tab.

How to use COUNTA function in excel

  1. Click on an empty cell (like F5).
 an empty cell in excel

2. Click on the fx icon (or press shift+F3).

fx icon in excel

3. In the insert function tab you will see all functions.

function list in excel

4. Select STATISTICAL category.

5. Select COUNTA function.

6. Then select ok.

excel COUNTA function

7. In the function arguments Tab you will see COUNTA function.

8. Value1: value1,value2,… are 1 to 255 arguments representing the values and cells you want to count. Values can be any type of information.

9. Value2: value1,value2,… are 1 to 255 arguments representing the values and cells you want to count. Values can be any type of information.

10. You will see the results in the formula result section.

Examples of COUNTA function in Excel

COUNTA related functions 

  • Use COUNT function to count the number of cells in a range that contains numbers.
  • 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.

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