How to count number of cells greater or less than 0 (zero) in Excel?

If you want to count number of cells with values greater or less than zero in a range, what can you do? In this article, we will show you methods of counting number of cells greater or less than zero in Excel.

Count number of cells greater or less than zero with formula
Count and select cells greater or less than zero with Kutools for Excel

Count number of cells greater or less than zero with formula

You can count number of cells greater or less than zero with formulas as follows.

Count cells greater than zero

1. Select a blank cell, enter formula =COUNTIF(A1:C7,">0") into the Formula Bar, then press the Enter key.

Then the selected cell will be populated with number of cells greater than zero.

Count cells less than zero

The same as the above operation, for counting cells less than zero, please use this formula =COUNTIF(A1:C7,"<0")

Note: Please change the cell reference in the formula as you need.

Count and select cells greater or less than zero with Kutools for Excel

Besides formulas, here introduce the Select Specific Cells utility of Kutools for Excel. With this utility, you can not only count number of cells that are greater or less than zero, but also select them after counting. Please do as follows.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

1. Select the range you want to count number of cells greater or less than zero. Then click Kutools > Select > Select Specific Cells. See screenshot:

2. In the Select Specific Cells dialog box, select Cell option in the Selection type section. In the Specific type section, select Greater than or Less than in the drop-down list, enter the number 0 into the following box, and then click the OK button.

3. Then another Select Specific Cells dialog box pops up to show you how many cells greater or less than zero were found. Click the OK button, all these cells are selected immediately.

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.

Best Office Productivity Tools

🤖	Kutools AI Aide: Revolutionize data analysis based on: Intelligent Execution \| Generate Code \| Create Custom Formulas \| Analyze Data and Generate Charts \| Invoke Kutools Functions…
	Popular Features: Find, Highlight or Identify Duplicates \| Delete Blank Rows \| Combine Columns or Cells without Losing Data \| Round without Formula ...
	Super Lookup: Multiple Criteria VLookup \| Multiple Value VLookup \| VLookup Across Multiple Sheets \| Fuzzy Lookup ....
	Advanced Drop-down List: Quickly Create Drop Down List \| Dependent Drop Down List \| Multi-select Drop Down List ....
	Column Manager: Add a Specific Number of Columns \| Move Columns \| Toggle Visibility Status of Hidden Columns \| Compare Ranges & Columns ...
	Featured Features: Grid Focus \| Design View \| Big Formula Bar \| Workbook & Sheet Manager \| Resource Library (Auto Text) \| Date Picker \| Combine Worksheets \| Encrypt/Decrypt Cells \| Send Emails by List \| Super Filter \| Special Filter (filter bold/italic/strikethrough...) ...
	Top 15 Toolsets: 12 Text Tools (Add Text, Remove Characters, ...) \| 50+ Chart Types (Gantt Chart, ...) \| 40+ Practical Formulas (Calculate age based on birthday, ...) \| 19 Insertion Tools (Insert QR Code, Insert Picture from Path, ...) \| 12 Conversion Tools (Numbers to Words, Currency Conversion, ...) \| 7 Merge & Split Tools (Advanced Combine Rows, Split Cells, ...) \| ... and more

Supercharge Your Excel Skills with Kutools for Excel, and Experience Efficiency Like Never Before. Kutools for Excel Offers Over 300 Advanced Features to Boost Productivity and Save Time. Click Here to Get The Feature You Need The Most...

Description

Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier

Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!

🤖	Kutools AI Aide: Revolutionize data analysis based on: Intelligent Execution \| Generate Code \| Create Custom Formulas \| Analyze Data and Generate Charts \| Invoke Kutools Functions…
	Popular Features: Find, Highlight or Identify Duplicates \| Delete Blank Rows \| Combine Columns or Cells without Losing Data \| Round without Formula ...
	Super Lookup: Multiple Criteria VLookup \| Multiple Value VLookup \| VLookup Across Multiple Sheets \| Fuzzy Lookup ....
	Advanced Drop-down List: Quickly Create Drop Down List \| Dependent Drop Down List \| Multi-select Drop Down List ....
	Column Manager: Add a Specific Number of Columns \| Move Columns \| Toggle Visibility Status of Hidden Columns \| Compare Ranges & Columns ...
	Featured Features: Grid Focus \| Design View \| Big Formula Bar \| Workbook & Sheet Manager \| Resource Library (Auto Text) \| Date Picker \| Combine Worksheets \| Encrypt/Decrypt Cells \| Send Emails by List \| Super Filter \| Special Filter (filter bold/italic/strikethrough...) ...
	Top 15 Toolsets: 12 Text Tools (Add Text, Remove Characters, ...) \| 50+ Chart Types (Gantt Chart, ...) \| 40+ Practical Formulas (Calculate age based on birthday, ...) \| 19 Insertion Tools (Insert QR Code, Insert Picture from Path, ...) \| 12 Conversion Tools (Numbers to Words, Currency Conversion, ...) \| 7 Merge & Split Tools (Advanced Combine Rows, Split Cells, ...) \| ... and more