How do I count cells in spreadsheet that are not empty?

[Paul]

I am creating rosters of students and would like to find out two things:

How do I count all of the cells that are filled in (omitting those that are
empty)?

I'm integrating information from another system that is not compatible, so I
would like to eliminate the duplicated student names monthly. Is there a way
to use the COUNTIF function to "throw out" names so that I count each student
only once?

Thanks

[Jim Thomlinson]

Check out Example 6 at the bottom to count Unique values...

http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html

I think that is what you want.
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Paul" wrote:

> I am creating rosters of students and would like to find out two things:
>
> How do I count all of the cells that are filled in (omitting those that are
> empty)?
>
> I'm integrating information from another system that is not compatible, so I
> would like to eliminate the duplicated student names monthly. Is there a way
> to use the COUNTIF function to "throw out" names so that I count each student
> only once?
>
> Thanks