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HansVogelaar - it only counts cells that have something in them. It will not count empty cells at all even if I select 1 empty and 4 or more cells with text/numbers. I will only get a count of the cells with an entry. I need to create coloured patterns in excel, they don't have text in them. I need to count cells that have a fill colour. Instead now I have to select every cell in the sheet, put a 0 in it, and make the text white. I wish I could just select empty cells and have them count at the bottom.