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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.
Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...
When you import data into Excel, if Excel determines that one of the values in a column of data contains a string, it might import all values in the column as strings, even though they are really ...
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