counting cells

[Rebecca]

Good Morning,

I know this is a simple question, but I was wondering how
to get a total of cells in a column (I know they are
numbered down the side, but my header is in the first row
and I am developing this for someone else to use in the
future who isnt really familiar with computers) The cells
contain ID numbers ie: 1001, 1002, 1003....and I dont want
an sum of these numbers, just the number of cells that
contain ID numbers (ie 353 families on a waiting list who
were given ID numbers).
Thanks for the help in advance.

 

[Jason Morin]

If we were doing this for column A, you could use:

=COUNTA(A:A)-1

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA