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Don't trust Excel's COUNTA function to count non-blank cells—here's a better method

In most counting scenarios in Excel, COUNTBLANK reliably counts blank cells, and COUNTA reliably counts populated cells.
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The simple Excel function that decides if your formula spills or returns one value

If you decide to spill the results, you can then use the spilled range operator (#) to perform a calculation on the spilled range. Simply reference the first cell of the spilled range with a # ...

The Best New Excel Update for Faster Reports and Fewer Errors

Explore Excel’s latest new features such as Translate and the Formula-by-Examples tool, so multilingual reports update automatically and save ...

Optimize Excel's Goal Seek: Master Reverse Calculations

Discover how Excel's Goal Seek reverses calculations to find input values from known outcomes and enhances your data analysis skills.