Count all fields in an column, except for n specified range

Question

I am trying to count all the field in an entire column except for n specified range. I need to select the entire column to cater for future expansion

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Answer 1

Which version of Excel? In Excel 2007 or later try COUNTIFS (with an "S"), i.e.

=COUNTIFS(B:B,"<>ASY999",B:B, "<>ASY002",B:B,"<>CIB001",B:B,"<>")

I assume ASY999 etc are text values.....

In Excel 2003 or earlier you can use SUMPRODUCT but you need to restrict the range rather than using the whole column so assuming data in rows 2 to 1000 try

=SUMPRODUCT(ISNA(MATCH(B2:B1000,{"ASY999","ASY002","CIB001"},0))*(B2:B1000<>""))