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Don't trust Excel's COUNTA function to count non-blank cells—here's a better method
In most counting scenarios in Excel, COUNTBLANK reliably counts blank cells, and COUNTA reliably counts populated cells.
It's cleaner and less cluttered: The double-unary operator is the most concise way to apply a mathematical coercion operation to an array. For example, if you have a complex nested array formula, two ...
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