Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • How to create Gauge Chart in Excel
  • Conditional Formatting Data bars Examples in Excel
  • How to create running total in an Excel Table
  • Calculate Conditional Percentile ‘IF’ in table in Excel
  • How To Compare Two Lists in Excel

References

  • How to create dynamic named range with OFFSET in Excel
  • Find Closest Match in Excel Using INDEX, MATCH, ABS and MIN functions
  • Perform case-sensitive Lookup in Excel
  • Find closest match in Excel
  • How to calculate two-way lookup VLOOKUP in Excel Table

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation must contain specific text
  • Excel Data validation require unique number
  • Excel Data validation don’t exceed total
  • Excel Data validation must not contain
  • Excel Data validation number multiple 100

COUNTBLANK function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

by

What is COUNTBLANK function in Excel?

COUNTBLANK function is one of Statistical functions in Microsoft Excel used to count the number of empty cells in a range of cells.

Syntax of COUNTBLANK function

COUNTBLANK(range)

The COUNTBLANK function syntax has the following arguments:

  • Range    Required. The range from which you want to count the blank cells.

COUNTBLANK formula explanation

Cells with formulas that return “” (empty text) are also counted. Cells with zero values are not counted.

Example of COUNTBLANK function

Steps to follow:

1. Open a new Excel worksheet.

2. Copy data in the following table below and paste it in cell A1

Note: For formulas to show results, select them, press F2 key on your keyboard and then press Enter.

You can adjust the column widths to see all the data, if need be.

Data Data
6
27
4 34
Formula Description Result
=COUNTBLANK(A2:B5) Counts empty cells in the range above. 2

Post navigation

Previous Post:

How to generate random date between two dates in Excel

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • SWITCH function example in Excel
  • How to use Excel OR Function
  • Nested IF function example in Excel
  • Complete List of Excel Logical Functions, References and Examples
  • IF with boolean logic in Excel

Date Time

  • YEARFRAC function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Get month from date in Excel
  • Add days to date in Excel
  • Convert decimal seconds to Excel time
  • Calculate series of dates by workdays in Excel

Grouping

  • Group times into 3 hour buckets in Excel
  • Running count group by n size in Excel
  • Categorize text with keywords in Excel
  • Calculate conditional mode with criteria in Excel
  • If cell contains one of many things in Excel

General

  • How to calculate percent sold in Excel
  • How to get amount with percentage in Excel
  • Check if range contains a value not in another range in Excel
  • Flash Fill in Excel
  • How to fill cell ranges with random number from fixed set of options in Excel
© 2026 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning