I can't replicate this (with my version of excel on Windows 7) -
If I define your names and then create formulas
Then apply names
I get the desired result -
How are you defining the names? I select the cell then click on its title to the left of the formula bar and type in the name.
With yours -
apply names -
As shown here
No change without "showing formulas" -
apply names
Okay, here we go. Office 2013, windows 7
apply names
Looks like a replicated failure.
Okay, let's try Excel 2016 on OSX Yosemite
Let's define our names and formulas -
Good, good, let's apply our names
What? Alert Formula is too long
Now it selected my count
and.. what? Alert Microsoft Excel cannot find any references to replace
And it's a.. partial failure?
Okay then, let's do this manually -
Strange, it doesn't highlight the range, just the two cells?
But it works?
Just for comparison, a regular count
highlights the range -