COUNT
This function counts the number of numeric entries in a list.
It will ignore blanks, text and errors.
A                  B                         C          Count
10                 20                        30         3
10                                           30         2
10                 -20                       30         3
10                 1-Jan-88                  30         3
10                 21:30                     30         3
BB                 1                         CC         1
354                #DIV/0!                   487        2
COUNTA
This function counts the number of numeric or text entries in a list.
It will ignore blanks.
A                  B                         C          CountA
10                 20                        30         3
10                                           30         2
10                 -20                       30         3
10                 1-Jan-88                  30         3
10                 21:30                     30         3
BB                 1                         CC         3
354                #DIV/0!                   487        3
                                             21         1
a                                            CC         2
COUNTBLANK
This function counts the number of blank cells in a range.
A                  B                         C          CountBlank
10                 20                        30         0
10                                           30         1
10                 -20                       30         0
10                 1-Jan-88                  30         0
10                 21:30                     30         0
BB                 1                         CC         0
354                #DIV/0!                   487        0
                                             21         2
a                                            CC         1
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1 Use the Count function to calculate the following:
      A           B           C           D        Count CountA CountBlank
      4         -40         0:00         21            4    4       0
      9      22-Mar-00      XL                         2    3       1
      5        ABC           96          41            3    4       0
                 2        #DIV/0!        51            2    3       1
     6        #DIV/0!      32.000        61            3    4       0
     23         984          75          71            4    4       0
     7           0           12          81            4    4       0
This is the database of an HR Placement Agency, there are few Company names and
their HRs and their follow up status From this database count how many HRs have
not reverted back
HRs not reverted back                               3
            Company Name                           HR               Status
Indiabulls Housing Finance                Niharika G Bhardwaj Required
Larsen & Toubro                           Sanjoy K Roy          Not Required
LIC Housing Finance                       Ranjit K Ramanujan    Follow up
PNB Housing Finance Limited               Anshul Bhargava
Housing Development Finance Corporation Praveen Kumar Bhalla Follow up
Bajaj Capital                             Sunaina Khanna
SBI Capital Markets india                 Leena Paulose
ICICI Bank                                Virendra Shilwant     Required
Aditya Birla Group                        Tanvi Sondhi          Not Required
DSP Merrill Lynch Limited                 Allan Lamb            Follow up
Serial no.   Mathematical Functions                Syntax
    1              COUNT              COUNT(value1,value2,...)
    2              COUNTA             COUNTA(value1,value2,...)
    3            COUNTBLANK           COUNTBLANK(value1,value2,...)
                  Functions
Counts the number of numbers in supplied values.
           Does not count empty cells.
  Counts the number of empty cells in a range.