Count is not working

[eyeman6513_2000]

Okay, this is BASIC and I feel bad for asking, but I can not get my
count to work.

I have a spreadsheet with a list of doctors names and other
information, I tried to do a count on the column using the following
formula:

=count(D)

And Excel gave me 0.

I tried this on other columns, it worked, there is no formula in the
column, my spreadsheet is not on manual calculate, when using the
little ghost function in Excel I am able to get a count for the row in
question, but the formula won't work. I found a work around by
counting another column, any ideas on why it is not working?

Richard

 

[oldchippy]

Okay, this is BASIC and I feel bad for asking, but I can not get my
count to work.

I have a spreadsheet with a list of doctors names and other
information, I tried to do a count on the column using the following
formula:

=count(D)

And Excel gave me 0.

I tried this on other columns, it worked, there is no formula in the
column, my spreadsheet is not on manual calculate, when using the
little ghost function in Excel I am able to get a count for the row in
question, but the formula won't work. I found a work around by
counting another column, any ideas on why it is not working?

Richard

Hi Richard,

If you're counting text, use =COUNTA(D)

oldchippy

 

[SteveW]

Count counts numbers
you said list of names
try counta

Steve

 

[Don Guillett]

try countA

 

[eyeman6513_2000]

It worked, thank you.

 

[Ken Wright]

Might also want to consider looking at Data / Subtotals for that kind of info.