[mso] Re: Excel 2000 Help Help with COUNTA

  • From: "Green" <1z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:04:10 +0100

Hiya,

My question was about COUNTA not COUNT Wilson.

Lisa

> Hi Lisa, and Linda,
> in the Excel Help example, =COUNT(A1:A7, 2) means that you
> want to count
> how many numbers are in the cells of array A1:A7, plus the
> number 2 which
> is the second argument. Array A1:A7, in the example given,
> contains 3
> numbers, in cells A2, A4 and A5 (check that =COUNT(A1:A7)
> is given as 3 in
> the same example). Plus the number 2, you get 4 numbers.
> Wilson
>
> At 20:05 6/3/2005, you wrote:
> >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


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