It worked. Those two functions (usefulness_of_cells & number_of_good_rows) seem to work flawlessly...knock on wood. I have run a number of different Excel spreadsheets through the functions, and so far the functions have a 100% acuracy rating. The acuracy rating is based on the functions' returned number of cells containing text, excluding a space as text, against the actual, hand counted number of cells with text. Thank you John Machin for all of your help. I am using these two functions, with your name tagged to them both. Let me know if that's a problem. Thank you again.
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