On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:56:41 GMT, Lars-Åke Aspelin
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:26:01 -0700, MAANI
wrote:

C2 to IK2 have dates from 1-Aug-08 to 31-Mar-09, B4 to B159 eployee names,I
want a formula to count blanks before todays date,Example:if today is
4-Aug-08, I want the formula to return 312 which is countblank(C4:E159)


Try this formula:

=COUNTBLANK(OFFSET(C4:C159,,,,MATCH(TODAY(),C2:IK 2)))

Hope this helps / Lars-Åke

Actually the formula I gave included todays data.
In order to have only the blanks BEFORE todays data, a -1 should be
included, like this:

=COUNTBLANK(OFFSET(C4:C159,,,,MATCH(TODAY(),C2:IK2 )-1))

Lars-Åke