Counting Cells (COUNT)

Syntax: COUNT(x1; x2; … x30)

The COUNT function accepts a maximum of 30 separate arguments (single values and ranges of cells) and returns the number of arguments that contain numeric values. For example:

=COUNT("OpenOffice.org"; 7139; 12.99)

returns 2.

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Figure 7-5. Sample result of the COUNT function

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