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COUNTA(value1, value2 [, value3] [,...])

 
 Returns the number of non blank cells in a list or cell range.

 value1The first value.
 value2The second value.
 value3The third optional value.

 REMARKS
 
  		• This is identical to the COUNT() function except that text, logical values and errors are included.
     
  		• Arguments that are empty cells are ignored. See Example 7.
     
  		• Any arguments that are text or blank strings will evaluate to 1.
     
  		• Any arguments that contains True will evaluate to 1.
     
  		• Any arguments that contains False will evaluate to 0.
     
  		• You can have a maximum of 30 arguments.

     EXAMPLES
     
     ABC
    1=COUNTA(B1) = 1"Text"#DIV/0!
    2=COUNTA(B1:B2) = 214.3#REF!
    3=COUNTA(B1:B5) = 57/1/197720
    4=COUNTA(B1:C5,10,20) = 11""True
    5=COUNTA({1,2,3,4,5}) = 510 
    6=COUNTA(C1:C4) = 4  
    7=COUNTA(C1:C5) = 4  
    8=COUNTA({12,14,14},19,235) = 5  
    9=COUNTA({1,2,3,4,5,"text",TRUE},B1) = 8  
    		 
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