What does the COUNT function do in Excel?

Answer 1

The COUNT function counts the number of cells that contain numbers.

Syntax: =COUNT(value1, value2,...value30)

The arguments (e.g. value1) can be cell references or values typed into the Excel COUNT formula.

Answer 2

Count function and counta function are a statistical functions in excels that helps us.. count. The difference between count function to counta function is that count function considers only cells that contains a number and counta function counts all the cells that are not empty, regardless of what data they hold.

Count and counta functions are often use in large arrays of data when you want easily to count something, for example, when we get sales reports on sales of a new item, I want to know in a second how many stores sold at least on item and I am doing it by using count function.

Answer 3

Count counts the amount of values that are in cells. If you have a block of cells of which some have numbers and some don't, it will tell you how many have numbers. It counts cells with numbers, dates and times, but not text or logical values. To do those you need the Counta function. COUNTIF counts only things that meet a certain condition. So instead of counting all the numbers in the range, you could have Countif only count numbers that are over a certain value. The following example would count all the numbers in the range A1 to A15 that have a value greater than 10:

=COUNTIF(A1:A15,">10")