Like, I said, it's counting the non-Blank cells AND any items you put inside the parentheses separated by commas COUNTA(1,2,3) would give you 3 COUNTA(fred,bill,mary) would give you 3 COUNTA(A1:A7,2) would give you a count of all the cells in A1:A7 that had something in them PLUS any other items you include in the parentheses, separated by commas Linda Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com ABC Free Ezine ~ Free Ebooks and Tutorials *all outgoing mail scanned by Norton AV. If you got a bug that looks like it came from me, it did NOT! -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christine Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 12:28 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Excel 2000 Help Help with COUNTA Okay, so its counting the non blank cells. That I understand. But I don't understand what the 2 is for? It adds one to the total if I put 2 in the formula. )Or 2453. Or it adds one for pretty much anything I put in the formula after comma. So what would you use this for? Christine ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************