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The Corporate Finance Institute ExcelCOUNTCount numbersvalue1 value2 …What is the COUNT Function?The COUNT Function is a Statistical function. The function helps count thenumber of cells that contain a number, as well as the number of argumentsthat contain numbers. It will also count numbers in any given array. It wasintroduced in Excel in 2000.As a financial analyst, the COUNT function is useful in analyzing data if we wishto keep a count of cells in given range.Formula=COUNT(value1, value2….)Where:Value1 (required argument) – The first item or cell reference or range forwhich we wish to count numbers.Value2… (optional argument) – We can add up to 255 additional items, cellreferences, or ranges within which we wish to count numbers.Remember this function will count only numbers and ignore everything else.How to use the COUNT Function in Excel?To understand the uses of the COUNT function, let us consider few examples:corporatefinanceinstitute.com176
The Corporate Finance Institute ExcelExample 1Let us see the results that we get using the data below:Data Formula Result1/1/17 =COUNT(1-25-2017) 125 =COUNT(25) 1TRUE =COUNT(TRUE) 0DIV/0! =COUNT(#DIV/0!) 022.25 =COUNT(22.25) 15.25 =COUNT(5.25) 1As seen above, the COUNT function ignored text or formula errors andcounted numbers only.The results we got in Excel are shown below:corporatefinanceinstitute.com177
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