Count Cells That Contain Any Text


Answer :

You can pass "<>" (including the quotes) as the parameter for criteria. This basically says, as long as its not empty/blank, count it. I believe this is what you want.



=COUNTIF(A1:A10, "<>") 


Otherwise you can use CountA as Scott suggests



COUNTIF function will only count cells that contain numbers in your specified range.



COUNTA(range) will count all values in the list of arguments. Text entries and numbers are counted, even when they contain an empty string of length 0.



Example:
Function in A7
=COUNTA(A1:A6)



Range:



A1 a



A2 b



A3 banana



A4 42



A5



A6



A7 4 -> result



Google spreadsheet function list contains a list of all available functions for future reference https://support.google.com/drive/table/25273?hl=en.



The criterium should be "?*" and not "<>" because the latter will also count formulas that contain empty results, like ""



So the simplest formula would be



=COUNTIF(Range,"?*")


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