Cells that look blank but are not treated as blank

The count was off by one.The list has 312 rows. Counting with COUNTA gives 313. Even checking row by row visually, no extra ...
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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 ...