Introduction:-
COUNT function in excel is a statistical function. This function is used to count the number of values that are numbers; usually these are the cells that contain numbers. This is a worksheet function and can be entered into the cell in which count is required.
Syntax:-
=COUNT(value1, value2, …., …)
Arguments:-
Value1: 1st range of values or reference to a cell
Value2: 2nd range of values or reference to a cell
Keynotes:-
- COUNT function can use up to 255 additional values.
- Text values, logical values, empty cells are not used for counting and omitted.
- If one wants to count text values and logical values, use COUNTA function.
- COUNTIF and COUNTIFS function are used if one wants to use certain criteria for counting.
Examples
In this example, various values are entered in Column A and Column B, and COUNT function is used to count values of Column A and column B using the formula =COUNT(A4:A9, B4:B9) which gives 12 as the result.

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