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

Data Analysis

  • How to conditionally sum numeric data in an Excel table using SUMIFS
  • Excel Line Chart
  • Error Bars in Excel
  • Reverse List in Excel
  • How To Sort One Column or Multiple Columns in Excel

References

  • Last row number in range
  • How to use Excel ROW Function
  • Extract data with helper column in Excel
  • LOOKUP function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • How to get last row in text data in Excel

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation specific characters only
  • How To Create Drop-down List in Excel
  • Excel Data validation don’t exceed total
  • Excel Data validation date in specific year
  • Excel Data validation allow weekday only

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Your email address will not be published.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

  • Invoice status with nested if in Excel
  • IF with boolean logic in Excel
  • FALSE function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • OR function Examples in Excel
  • XOR function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Date Time

  • Get week number from date in Excel
  • NOW function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Get last working day in month in Excel
  • Calculate days remaining in Excel
  • Extract time from a date and time in Excel

Grouping

  • Running count group by n size in Excel
  • Calculate conditional mode with criteria in Excel
  • How to randomly assign data to groups in Excel
  • Map inputs to arbitrary values in Excel
  • Map text to numbers in Excel

General

  • Print Excel Sheet In Landscape Or Portrait
  • Check if multiple cells have same value in Excel
  • Excel Ribbon Quick Overview For Beginners
  • Mark Workbook as Final in Excel
  • Creating and Opening an existing file in Excel
© 2026 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning