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How to count number of cells with nonzero values in Excel?

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2024-08-26

For counting total number of cells with nonzero values in Excel, here we will show you two methods. Please browse for more details.

Count number of cells with nonzero values with formula
Count number of cells with nonzero values with Kutools for Excel

Count number of cells with nonzero values with formula

Supposing you have a range of data as below screenshot shown. For counting numbers of cells with nonzero values, please do as follows.

sample data

1. Select a blank cell for locating the counting result (here I select cell H1). Copy and paste formula =COUNTIF(A1:E8,"<>0") into the Formula Bar, and then press the Enter key. See screenshot:

apply a formula to count nonzero cells

2. Then the total number of nonzero values of the selected range is counted and displayed in cell H1.

Notes:

1. With the above formula, you may count the non-zero cells which including blank cells. If you want to ignoring both the zero cells and blank cells, please apply this formula: =COUNTA(A1:D10)-COUNTIF(A1:D10,"=0"), then press Enter key to get the result, see screenshot:

apply a formula to count cells ignoring both the zero cells and blank cells

2. With above formulas, you can count the total number of cells with nonzero values in a row, column or range in Excel with changing the cell references in the formula.

Count number of cells with nonzero values with Kutools for Excel

Besides the formulas, the Select Specific Cells utility of Kutools for Excel can help you quickly count number of cells with nonzero values in Excel.

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1. Select the range you want to count number of nonzero cells. Then click Kutools > Select > Select Specific Cells. See screenshot:

click Select Specific Cells feature of kutools

2. In the popped up Select Specific Cells dialog box, select Cell in the Selection type section, specify Does not equal in the Specific type drop-down list, and enter number 0 into the blank box. Finally click the OK button. See screenshot:

set options in the Select Specific Cells dialog box

3. Then a dialog box pops up to tell you how many nonzero value cells existing in the selected range. And it has excluded the blank cells directly already. Click the OK button, these cells are selected immediately.

a prompt box to tell how many nonzero value cells existing

  If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

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