How can I count the rows with data in an Excel sheet?

Question

I am trying to count the number of rows in a spreadsheet which contain at least one non-blank value over a few columns: i.e.

row 1 has a text value in column         


        

Answer 1

With formulas, what you can do is:

• in a new column (say col D - cell D2), add =COUNTA(A2:C2)
• drag this formula till the end of your data (say cell D4 in our example)
• add a last formula to sum it up (e.g in cell D5): =SUM(D2:D4)