Excel formulas giving #VALUE! error when ported to Mac

Question

I want to be able to sum up the number of cells in a range that have a non-null value in them. On a PC running XP and Excel I entered =SUM(IF(G$19:G$1034=\"\",0,1))

Answer 1

I realize that the post was mede a long time ago, but i recently and regularly have the same problem - and I always seem to forget the solution: Select the cell or range of cells that contains the array formula, press CONTROL+U to edit the formula, and then press ⌘+RETURN.

Answer 2

You need to enter it as array (matrix) formula. After typing the formula don't hit enter but hit either

CMD+SHIFT+ENTER or CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER

Where CMD is the apple key. I'm not sure what the keycombination is on mac. But you can check in the help file. Entering array formula

Answer 3

I'm not sure if this is mac-specific. I have always used

=COUNTA(G$19:G$1034)

for this purpose.

Answer 4

It might be settings that control the separator character. That "," is the separator on one machine and something else, for example ";" is the separator character on the other.