In this accelerated training youll learn how to use formulas to manipulate text work with dates and times lookup values with VLOOKUP and INDEX MATCH count and sum with criteria dynamically rank values and create dynamic ranges. The function will return 3 in cell C2 as both the cells contain numbers. To skip blanks directly in a chart you need a formula before creating the chart.
Ignore blank cells in conditional formatting in Excel After creating conditional formatting rules for the list of data you need to add a new rule to ignore the blank cells in the list.
Count ignoring blank cells only with Status bar If you want count cells only ignores blank cells you can select the cells and then view the counting result in the Status bar. All 3 cells are not blank the result is TRUE and IF will run the SUM functionIf not result is FALSE and IF returns an empty string. Well the same thing can be done using the ISBLANK function. The formula in this case would be.