Various Count Functions in Excel. If your business uses spreadsheets, you may find it necessary to count the number of cells containing data in a worksheet.

Note that the content that follows is based on Microsoft Excel 365 for PCs. Other versions of Excel may work differently. Let’s look at some examples of how to use COUNTIF and COUNTIFS. First, let’s ...

Open your Excel speadsheet. Locate the cells you need to count. As an example, if you had sporadic data that started in cell A1 and continued through E100, then their reference would be "A1:E100." ...

While Excel was designed for numbers, it also involves text in cells. So, for example, if you want to transfer your data and limit the characters for each cell, you may want to know how to count ...

Q. Is there a quick way in Excel to calculate the number of business days in a particular period? For example, a CPA preparing payroll may need to determine how many business days he or she has to ...

Using Excel's COUNTIFS () function, you can quickly count records that fall between two dates. Many records include a date stamp of some sort. Usually the date marks an event or the input date.

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, but we've selected the most popular, from date and time functions to mathematics and simple data manipulation.

We show you how to use Excel to count days between two dates using the DAYS, DATEDIF, NETWORKDAYS, and TODAY functions, and Subtraction.

XLOOKUP is Excel’s modern fix for everything VLOOKUP got wrong. It’s simpler, more flexible, and available in Excel 365 and ...