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Referring to a COUNTed value

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    Referring to a COUNTed value

    I'm a complete amateur when it comes to Excel so bear with me if my description isn't brilliant.

    I have a table of results extracted from a database. The number of rows varies each week, say.
    I use a COUNTA function on columnA (which is always populated) in order to find out how many rows the table has.
    Then in subsequent columns, I want to count how many blank values I have. I tried doing this using the COUNTBLANK function, but I want to refer to the result of the COUNTA from columnA to define the range that this COUNTBLANK should consider.

    Any advice gratefully received

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    Try

    =COUNTBLANK(B1:INDEX(B:B,COUNTA(A:A)))

    or

    =COUNTBLANK(OFFSET(B1,,,COUNTA(A:A)))

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    Another way would be

    =COUNTA(A:A)-COUNTA(B:B)

    but that will only count "real" blanks in column B, not so-called "formula blanks", i.e. "" returned by a formula

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    Say your counta formula is in ad2 and you want to count the blanks in col f (starting at f2)use following formula: :
    =COUNTBLANK(INDIRECT("F2"&":"&"f"&AD2))

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    Great - thanks guys!

    Thanks for our suggestions. Worked great. I am a happy bunny again

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