Blankety blank
As you saw in Chapter 1, sometimes you may end up with cells containing no data. For example, if someone refuses to answer a question on a survey, or a sensor failed to pick up a reading, or a store was shut for a holiday.
How you deal with these blank cells can have a big effect on your results, so it's important to tread carefully. The first steps are to able to identify whether a cell is blank (using ISBLANK()
), and to count how many blanks that you have.
COUNTBLANK
accepts a range of cells, and returns the number of blanks in that range.
Some of column G
has been made blank.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Google Sheets
Exercise instructions
- In column
H
, determine which cells in columnG
are blank. - In cell
G26
, calculate the count of blank cells in columnG
of the dataset.
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