Microsoft Excel allows you to crunch massive quantities of data easily through the use of functions. Sometimes you need to know the number of actual data points without counting blank cells.

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There are a few ways to count the number of items in an Excel list, depending on the data you have. One way is using the COUNTIF function.

You can count the number of values in a single cell in Excel and Google Sheets that are seperated by comma using this function or formula.

Example Column A2 has a value of 40. 40/7 =5.7. This would mean I want to look into the next 6 cells. The formula (in B2) would look only into cells C2 to H2 and count number of cells with a value ...

Either way, counting the number of records that fall between two dates is easy using the COUNTIFS () function (which isn’t available in Excel 2003 or earlier).