Counting Cells with Varying amounts of data

Hello,

I am trying to figure a formula that will count a specific number of cells, but the amount of cells I want to count will vary as the formula is dragged down. I attached an example.

I need a formula to count the number of cells with values in it per participant. For example, the formula should show "3" for participant 1, "3" for participant 2, and "1" for participant 3.

I have a large amount of data, so this would be very helpful.

Thanks,

B

It would be better if you filled all the cells in column A, rather than leave some of them blank - you can achieve the same "look" by using conditional formatting to blank duplicates out (i.e. use a white foreground colour) if the cell value is the same as the previous cell.

Then you can use this formula in cell D2:

=IF(COUNTIF(A$2:A2,A2)=1,COUNTIFS(A:A,A2,C:C,">0"),"")

which you can copy down to the bottom of your data - it will produce a result only on the row of the first occurrence of the participant.

Hope this helps.

Pete

Thank you so much, you saved me so much time. For Science!

Glad to help.

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