How to calculate the number of non-zero cells in range?

[Claudia d'Amato]

I would like to count the number of non-zero (=non-blank) cells in a range (say D930).

How can I do this with an Excel formula ?

Claudia

 

[Gord Dibben]

COUNTA will count all non-blank cells............text or numeric.

COUNT will count all numeric cells.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Lars-Åke Aspelin]

I would like to count the number of non-zero (=non-blank) cells in a range (say D930).

How can I do this with an Excel formula ?

Claudia

Take a look at the worksheet function COUNTA()

Hope this helps / Lars-Åke

 

[T. Valko]

Do any of the cells contain formula blanks?

Try one of these (accounts for formula blanks):

=SUMPRODUCT(--(LEN(D930)>0))

=ROWS(D930)-COUNTBLANK(D930)

 

[jasontferrell]

Here is one that will account for either blanks or zeros. I wasn't
clear from the original question if we need to exclude both.

=SUMPRODUCT((NOT(ISBLANK(D930))*1)*(NOT(D930=0)*1))

 

[Claudia d'Amato]

Your solution is NOT working, if a cell contains a formula!

So if a cell contains e.g.=SUM(A5:A15) then is cell is non-blank and
counts as 1. But this is not intended.

If the formula evaluates to 0 then this cell should NOT count.
I need a solution which evaluates any possibly existing formulas at
first and then checks if the cell is non-blank/non-zero.

Any other solutions than COUNTA() for this task?

Claudia

 

[ryguy7272]

This function will count non-blanks:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20<>""))
Note, Enter as Ctrl + Shift + Enter, not just Enter

This will count blanks:
=COUNTIF(A1:A20,"")
Normal Enter

This will count values >0:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20>0))
Note, Enter as Ctrl + Shift + Enter, not just Enter

Just for fun...this will count zeros:
=COUNTIF(A1:A20,0)
Normal Enter




HTH,
Ryan---