In most counting scenarios in Excel, COUNTBLANK reliably counts blank cells, and COUNTA reliably counts populated cells.

The ISBLANK function returns TRUE if the value is blank and False if the cell is not blank. The ISBLANK function is an information function and will locate an empty cell. The formula for the ISBLANK ...

However carefully you monitor the data you enter and import into Microsoft Excel, and the output of formulas and functions that produce new values, it's easy to wind up with cells that contain one or ...

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SUMIF, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS, and COUNTIFS are commonly used accounting functions in Microsoft Excel. These formulas are used to calculate cell values based on the criteria you have described or ...

Functions are the driving force of any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, generating a single value or an array of results based on certain arguments you input. However, combining—or nesting—functions ...

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000, which is the only version that explains how this function works.