How do I get countifs to select all non-blank cells in Excel?

Question

How do I get countifs to select all non-blank cells? I have two other criteria, so using counta alone is not an option.

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Answer 1

I find that the best way to do this is to use SUMPRODUCT instead:

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A10<>"")*1)

It's also pretty great if you want to throw in more criteria:

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A10<>"")*(A1:A10>$B$1)*(A1:A10<=$B$2))