What Bernie was communicating is that justification or alignment isn't a
uniform attribute, certainly not something on which you should rely. Text
can be left or right aligned by formatting, or by padding with spaces. Ditto
for numbers.
Is there something a little more uniform or reliable that denotes the cells
to count or to ignore?
"Laura" wrote:
> Maybe I wasn't clear . . . I don't need to sum the total of the cells I need
> to know how many cells are right-justified in each row. I hope that is a
> clearer explanation of what I am looking for.
> --
> Thank you for your assistance.
>
> Laura
>
>
> "Bernie Deitrick" wrote:
>
> > Laura,
> >
> > Justification doesn't change the underlying cell value, so it can be misleading. If you enter a
> > number, the default justification is right: enter that smae number with a leading single quote (to
> > enter it as a string) and the default justification is left. But you can change either
> > justification using formatting.
> >
> > For normally entered values in non-formatted cells, if you use a formula like
> >
> > =A1+A2
> >
> > and you will get the sum of the values, whether they are strings or not, as opposed to
> >
> > =SUM(A1:A2)
> >
> > which will only sum up true numbers.
> >
> > To count the number of true numbers in a row, you can use (to count the numbers in row 1):
> >
> > =SUMPRODUCT(ISNUMBER(1:1)*1)
> >
> > Your boss needs to do a better job of designing his spreadsheet.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Bernie
> > MS Excel MVP
> >
> >
> > "Laura" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > >I am working on a spreadsheet and the project manager needs me to write a
> > > formula to count right-justified cells in each row (so he will know if the
> > > information is going to be used for his calculations). I was told that Excel
> > > doesn't have anything built in to do this, but can it be done. If so, how????
> > > --
> > > Thank you for your assistance.
> > >
> > > Laura
> >
> >
> >
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