Excel Function AREAS

AREAS(reference)

Returns the number of areas in a cell range or reference.

reference

The reference to a range of cells.

Remarks

* The "reference" can refer to multiple cell ranges.
* The "reference" can be a named range or several cell references.
* If you want to specify several references as a single argument, then you must include an extra sets of parentheses (see Rows 4 & 5).
* An area is a range of contiguous cells or a single cell.
* For the Microsoft documentation refer to support.office.com

	A	B	C
1	=AREAS(B1) = 1	2	5
2	=AREAS(B1:C1) = 1	4	10
3	=AREAS(B1:C4) = 1	6	15
4	=AREAS((B1:B4,C1:C4)) = 2	8	20
5	=AREAS((B1:C4,B1:B2,C3:C4)) = 3
6	=AREAS((B1:C2,B1)) = 2
7	=AREAS(B1:B2 B1) = 1
8	=AREAS(B1 B2 B3) = #NULL!