In this article, I will walk you through using Excel ' s COUNTIF () function to count how often something appears in a list. It’s perfect when you have to find numbers greater than a certain value or filter data based on a condition. How to use the COUNT function in Excel to count the number of cells that contain numbers, and to count numbers within a list of arguments. In its simplest form, COUNTIF says: = COUNTIF (Where do you want to look?, What do you want to look for?) For example: The group of cells you want to count. Range can contain numbers, arrays, a named range, or references that contain numbers. Blank and text values are ignored. The Excel COUNTIF function returns the count of cells in a range that meet a single condition. The generic syntax is COUNTIF (range, criteria), where "range" contains the cells to count , and "criteria" is a condition that must be true for a cell to be counted. COUNTIF can be used to count cells that contain dates, numbers, and text. Criteria can include logical operators (>,
