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1.3. Advanced Functions in Excel

A function is a predefined formula that performs calculations using specific values in

a particular order. Excel includes many common functions that can be used to quickly
find the sum, average, count, maximum value, and minimum value for a range of cells.

COUNT Analysing Data

The COUNT function is used to calculate the number of cells that contain numbers, this

function ignores the text values between the cells and only calculates numeric values.
The COUNT function has the following syntax:

=COUNT (value1, [value2], ...)

• value1 [required]: the first item, cell reference, or range within which you want to
count numbers.

• value2, ...[optional] : up to 255 additional items, cell references, or ranges within
which you want to count numbers.

1. In this example, we want to find the number of numeric values in cell B

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