CountIF with OR in Range

Question

I'm writing a COUNTIF to count the number of rows between two columns where at least one of the cells in the row is not blank. The logic is as follows:

COUNTIF($A:$A OR $B:$B, "<>"&"")

I know I can't nest an OR within a COUNTIF, but is there something else I can do? I am familiar with using an array when you have multiple criteria, but I don't believe that works for ranges.

Answer 1

You need to do two COUNTIF an one COUNTIFS:

=COUNTIF(A:A,"<>")+COUNTIF(B:B,"<>")-COUNTIFS(A:A,"<>",B:B,"<>")

Or you need to limit the data range to use SUMPRODUCT:

=SUMPRODUCT(--((A1:A1000<>"")+(B1:B1000<>"")>0))