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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. However, with these functions comes a problematic paradox: an empty string from ...
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You need to know what the tilde (~) does in Excel

The tilde isn't the only sign you need to understand to truly get your head around Excel's inner workings. For example, the ...