Sounds like maybe you need to be using COUNTIF rather than COUNT e.g.

=COUNTIF(range,"value")

where you substitute for range and value as needed.

This works on numbers directly entered into cells as well as numbers which
are the result of formulas.

When I tested (Excel 2003), COUNT would also count the number of cells in
which there are direct entry numbers as well as numbers which are the result
of formulas.

Regards,

Tom


"robinessex" wrote:

Can you change the count function seeing formulas in cells as data. This
makes the function completely useless. I have an array 1000 cells X 500
cells. I need the count function to check on the number of occurances a
particular value is exceeded. The data is read into each of these cells by a
formula.

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