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

Data Analysis

  • Add Outline to Data in Excel
  • How to create running total in an Excel Table
  • Use Data Form to input, edit and delete records in Excel
  • How to sum a total in multiple Excel tables
  • How To Sort One Column or Multiple Columns in Excel

References

  • Two-column Lookup in Excel
  • How to get last row in mixed data with blanks in Excel
  • Last row number in range
  • Offset in Excel
  • How to get address of last cell in range in Excel

Data Validations

  • Prevent invalid data entering in specific cells
  • Excel Data validation exists in list
  • Excel Data validation require unique number
  • Excel Data validation date in specific year
  • Excel Data validation with conditional list

Count cells not equal to in Excel

by

This tutorial shows how to Count cells not equal to in Excel using the example below;

Formula

=COUNTIF(range,”<>X”)

Explanation

To count the number of cells that contain values not equal to a particular value, you can use the COUNTIF function. In the example above  X represents the value you don’t want to count. All other values will be counted.

In the example, the active cell contains this formula:

=COUNTIF(D4:D10,"<>Complete")

How this formula works

COUNTIF counts the number of cells in the range that meet the criteria you supply.

In the example, we use “<>” (the logical operator for “does not equal”) to count cells in the range D4:D10 that don’t equal “complete”. COUNTIF returns the count as a result.

COUNTIF is not case-sensitive. In this example, the word “complete” can appear in any combination of uppercase / lowercase letters and will not be counted.

If you want to use a value in another cell as part of the criteria, use the ampersand (&) character to concatenate like this:

=COUNTIF(range,"<>"&a1)

If the value in cell a1 is “100”, the criteria will be “<>100” after concatenation, and COUNTIF will count cells not equal to 100.

Post navigation

Previous Post:

How to use Excel CHOOSE Function

Next Post:

Customize Ribbon 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Your email address will not be published.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

  • How to use Excel OR Function
  • XOR function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • NOT function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • IFS function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Not Equal To ‘<>‘ operator in Excel

Date Time

  • Calculate expiration date in Excel
  • Convert decimal hours to Excel time
  • YEAR function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Get work hours between dates and times in Excel
  • Sum race time splits in Excel

Grouping

  • Group numbers at uneven intervals in Excel
  • Categorize text with keywords in Excel
  • Group numbers with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • Group times into unequal buckets in Excel
  • How to randomly assign people to groups in Excel

General

  • 3D SUMIF for multiple worksheets in Excel
  • How to test a range for numbers in Excel
  • How to Create Calendar in Excel
  • How to calculate percent of students absent in Excel
  • Convert column letter to number in Excel
© 2025 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning