Counting nonempyt cells in several rows - schedule

Hi guys,

HELP needed here...:

I created something like a work schedule for 8 people with shifts pattern.
In the rows there are names and later are cells with days or nights or emty ones.
The sequence gets repeated every two weeks for the whole period of the year.

I would like to engage Excel to count non-empty cells for the period of whole year so I know how many shifts particular guys worked.

In Google Docs I found this formula to be working. This is for one month for one person:
=IF( ISNA(ROWS(QUERY($A$22:$M$399,ʺselect A where month(A)=ʺ & B$3 & ʺ and ʺ & $O4))),0,ROWS(QUERY($A$22:$M$399,ʺselect A where month(A)=ʺ & B$3 & ʺ and ʺ & $O4)))

Couold you help me with the one for excel?

Thanks in advance - regards

Hi and welcome to the forum

=countA() will count all non-blank cells
=countif() will count all cells that match 1 criteria
=countifS() will count all cells that match multiple criteria

Try them and see how you make out.

If you still have a problem, i would suggest you upload a sample work book, (all sensitive data removed), showing what data you are working with, a few examples of what your expected outcome is, and how you arrived at that
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looking at your file, I notice that sometimes you have this...
=IF(OR((COUNTIF(D3:D14, "D")<>2),( COUNTIF(D3:D14, "N")<>2),( COUNTIF(D3:D14, "OC")<>1),( COUNTIF(D3:D14, "DS")<>0),( COUNTIF(D3:D14, "DF")<>0)), "ERROR", IF((C2="ERROR"),( B2+2),( C2+1)))

and other times, in the same situation, it changes to this...
=IF(OR((COUNTIF(D3:D14, "D")<>2),( COUNTIF(D3:D14, "N")<>2),( COUNTIF(D3:D14, "OC")<>1),( COUNTIF(D3:D14, "DS")<>2),( COUNTIF(D3:D14, "DF")<>0)), "ERROR", IF((C2="ERROR"),( B2+2),( C2+1)))

What is the reason for this?
Another question is...why such a complex formula when you could just use...
=C2+1
or a shorter countifS()...=IF(COUNTIFS(D3:D14, "D<>2",D3:D14,"N<>2",D3:D14,"OC<>1",D3:D14,"DS<>0",D3:D14,"DF<>0"), "ERROR", IF(C2="ERROR", B2+2, C2+1))...Avoid unnecessary ()

Also, I am looking at changing the format of what you have, so that your dates go down and the employees go agross. Its been my experience that it is always better to build a table that grows down, rather than across.