You can pass "<>" (including the quotes) as the parameter for criteria. This basically says, as long as its not empty/blank, count it. I believe this is what you want.
=COUNTIF(A1:A10, "<>")
Otherwise you can use CountA as Scott suggests
You can pass "<>" (including the quotes) as the parameter for criteria. This basically says, as long as its not empty/blank, count it. I believe this is what you want.
=COUNTIF(A1:A10, "<>")
Otherwise you can use CountA as Scott suggests
COUNTIF function will only count cells that contain numbers in your specified range.
COUNTA(range) will count all values in the list of arguments. Text entries and numbers are counted, even when they contain an empty string of length 0.
Example: Function in A7 =COUNTA(A1:A6)
Range:
A1 a
A2 b
A3 banana
A4 42
A5
A6
A7 4 -> result
Google spreadsheet function list contains a list of all available functions for future reference https://support.google.com/drive/table/25273?hl=en.
How to count cells with any text in them.
Counta should do the trick
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Hey r/googlesheets, long time listener, first time caller, here with kind of a dumb question.
I'm making a guest list. First name is column A, last name is column B, "Plus one?" is column C, with a dropdown menu. What function would I use to count all the cells in column A that have text in them. Ultimately, I want a cell with the total number of guests.
Thanks in advance.
Counta should do the trick
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Im stuck at one point. I'm trying to use countif formula to determine how many times a word of a string of words appear but sometimes there are two entries in a single cell and I have separated them by a slash. The countif formula doesn't seem to capture it. I'll show an example attached to this.
Avenger Iron Man comes two times and Avenger Iron Man Red comes two times but somehow the countif doesn't capture the word after the slash.
(for your information this is just a basic example. My actual spreadsheet is massive and has a lot of entries separated by slash. 99 percent of the time I can filter by using a unique word. But when similar words come then it just fails). Any help would be appreciated.
It will likely have been solved by now, but I ran accross this and figured to give my input
=COUNTIF(a2:a51;"*iPad*")
The important thing is that separating parameters in google docs is using a ; and not a ,
In case someone is still looking for the answer, this worked for me:
=COUNTIF(A2:A51, "*" & B1 & "*")
B1 containing the iPad string.
You can use REGEXMATCH:
=IF(REGEXMATCH(A1, "sites"), 1, 0)
REGEXMATCH returns true if the first argument matches the regular expression given by the second argument. As long as the second argument has no regex special metacharacters (^ $ \ . * + ? ( ) [ ] { } |), this returns true if that argument is a substring of your string.
If you, as Ryan Shillington suggests, want to know the number of cells within a range that has "sites" in it, you might try:
=COUNTIF(A1:A100;"*sites*")
The * acts as a wildcard notion, so it will look for a match anywhere within the cell, not just an exact match for the whole cell.
I've also done this with a cell reference instead of "sites", but then you have to add wildcard-asterixes to the text in the cell.