text - any text expression or text field

number

Values are text items separated by carriage returns. You can place several items together to create a carriage-return-delimited list of values. A value can be empty, a single character, a word, a sentence, or a paragraph. When you press Return you start creating a new value. The last value will be recognized with or without a trailing carriage return.

When the text parameter is a literal string as in the example below, you must insert a literal carriage return character between each item in the list. In the Specify Calculation dialog box, click the ¶ button to insert a literal carriage return character.

ValueCount ( "Item 1¶Item 2¶Item 3" ) returns 3.

ValueCount ( ValueListItems ( "Employees" ; "Employee Names" ) ) returns the total number of values in the Employee Names value list in the Employees database file.