Count blank cells till a non blank cell is reached

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I have this excel sheet and I need to count blank cells from a range till a non blank cell is reached.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | Count
x | x | - | - | - | x | - | - | 2
x | x | - | - | - | - | - | x | 0

In first row since the last column is blank, so next values are considered. Output is 2 cause there are two blanks before any non-blank cell.

In second row, since last column has value, so it will straight away print 0.

What I have tried:

=IF(cell="",something_to_count_blanks,0)

how to count those blank cells?

Posted 17-Oct-16 23:03pm

planetz

Updated 26-Oct-21 16:28pm

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manu_dhobale · Answer 1 · 2016-10-18T11:03:00

Solution 1

Try using this formula(For me this formula was in cell I2)
=COLUMNS(A2:H2)-COUNT(A2:H2)-LOOKUP(2,1/(A2:H2<>""),COLUMN(A2:H2))

C#

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	Result
x								7
	x							6
		x						5
			x					4
				x				3
					x			2
						x		1
							x	0

Posted 18-Oct-16 11:03am

manu_dhobale

Member 15408878 · Answer 2 · 2021-10-26T16:28:00

Solution 2

You can try this, we have the same problem, was able to come up with this. (Thanks Google) Works great with pivot tables. Formula is in I1.

=COLUMNS(A1:H1)-XMATCH("*?",VALUETOTEXT(A1:H1),2,-1)

Posted 26-Oct-21 16:28pm

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CHill60 27-Oct-21 7:15am

But... XMATCH wasn't introduced until the 2019 update so wasn't around when the question was asked!