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The Corporate Finance Institute ExcelCOUNTACount the number of non-blank cellsvalue1 value2 …What is COUNTA (Excel Countif Not Blank)?The COUNTA Function is categorized under Statistical functions and willcalculate the number of cells that are not blank within a given set of values.The COUNTA function is also commonly referred to as the Excel COUNTIF NotBlank formula.As a financial analyst, the COUNTA function is useful if we wish to keep a countof cells in a given range. Apart from crunching numbers, we often need tocount cells with values. In such scenario, the function can be useful.Excel Countif Not Blank Formula=COUNTA(value1, [value2], …)The Excel countif not blank formula uses the following arguments:1. Value1 (required argument) – It is the value at which we evaluate thefunction.2. Value2 (optional argument) – Additional arguments that represent thevalues that we wish to count.Few notes about the arguments1. We can enter up to 255 value arguments if we are using MS Excel 2007 orlater. Earlier versions can handle 30 arguments only.2. Value arguments can be values, array of values or references to cell ranges.How to use the COUNTA Function in Excel?To understand the uses of the COUNTA function, let us consider a fewexamples:corporatefinanceinstitute.com184
The Corporate Finance Institute ExcelExample 1 – Excel Countif not blankSuppose we are given the data below:Data Formula Result2/1/17 =COUNT(2-01-2017) 1.0035 =COUNT(35) 1.00TRUE =COUNT(TRUE) 1.00DIV/0! =COUNT(#DIV/0!) 1.0022.25 =COUNT(22.25) 1.005.25 =COUNT(5.25) 1.00As seen above, the COUNTA function will count text or formula errors. Sounlike the COUNT function, which considers only numbers, COUNTA considersnumbers, dates, text values, logical values, and errors).We get the results below:The COUNTA function can be used for an array. If we enter the formula=COUNTA(B5:B10), we will get the result 6, as shown below:corporatefinanceinstitute.com185
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