RE: Excel / COUNTA function is not working properly

Thank you John, that did the trick.
=COUNTIF(J10:J1731,"~*")

I was using the wizard and it was building the single quotes in it automatically. I was note editing the formula while I was using the wizard, so that is the reason why.

Thank you, thank you!!!
Peter Vidal| SR Technical Specialist | P: 800-808-1902 x 137210


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 1:17 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Excel / COUNTA function is not working properly

The COUNTA and COUNTIF functions are working as designed.

A cell with a blank space in it is not empty (it's a string of length 1), so is included in the COUNTA result.

COUNTIF will work, but asterisk is a special character. It's a wildcard. You need to escape it to get a literal asterisk. The escape character in Excel is the tilde (~). So you need to do

=COUNTIF(J10:J1731,"~*")

I don't know why you were also including single-quotes inside the double-quotes. Doing so should result in 0, not 1722. And there's no way you should be getting 1772 with that range in any case.

John
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