[mso] Re: Excel 2000 Help Help with COUNTA
- From: "Green" <1z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:05:53 +0100
Hey Linda,
The "2" is from the help example in the Excel help. I didn't put it
there!.. and I don;t know why it's there or why the result is 7.
That's what I was asking!
OTOH :-) Your explanation seems reasonable and in the absence of
others I'll go with that.
Thanks again
Lisa
> COUNT counts all the cells that have numbers in them, while
> COUNTA counts
> all the cells that have ANYTHING in them. (or any string of
> numbers you put
> in the formula, like your "2" for example)
>
> I have no idea why you have that "2" in that formula....the
> reason you are
> getting 7 must be that 6 cells in A1:A7 have something in
> them, then COUNTA
> is adding one more number for the "2"...try changing the
> "2" to "2453" and
> you'll still get 7 cuz COUNTA is just counting it as one item
>
> Use Excel's Paste Function wizard when you don't understand
> the arguments in
> a formula...it makes it MUCH easier
>
>
> Linda
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