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Count number of columns with value
I have 3rows x13 columns with the following data:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 2 3 4
1 5 6 7 8
Usually, I use count (A1 to A12), count (B1:B12) and count (c1to C12) into 3 cells and use anothe cell to determine the max among the 3 formula to get 12 evengthough the total column =13. If there another way to do this with a single line of code?
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I may have laid my spreadsheet out differently (in rows), but a single formula is quite easy:
=MAX(COUNT(A4:L4),COUNT(A5:L5),COUNT(A6:L6))
if you wanted to get the largest sum of the three rows, just change COUNT to SUM. Etc.
Changing MAX to MIN would get the smallest.
mathetes Assuming the area to count is column A to M. Instead of having to define each row (A4: M4), is it possible to do the same count by area (A4:M6) and the outcome is 12?
Chan_Tze_Leong I have close to 40 excel files with varying areas. So, to do each row range , is very tedious and time consuming. Imagine, for 1 file, I have to select 10 times for 10 rows. Alternatively, selecting the area is only 1 time activity.
