2. Excel has a number of Count Functions that will total the number of cells in a selected range. We’re going to look at: COUNT COUNTA COUNTBLANK COUNTIF

3. COUNT – for example =COUNT(C2:C6) – will return the number of cells in the selected range that contain numbers. COUNT will ignore text and other characters.

4. COUNTA – for example =COUNTA(C2:C6) – will count all of the cells in a given range that are not blank.

5. COUNTBLANK – for example =COUNTBLANK(C2:C6) – will count the number of cells with nothing in them in a given range.

6. COUNTIF searches for a specific criteria within a given range. For example =COUNTIF(C2:C6,5) would return the number of cells containing the number 5 within the specified range.