thanx a lot, that's exactly what I have been looking for.
You've helped me a lot.

Bernard Liengme pÃ*Å¡e:

I will assume the first column are dates
With dates in column A and colours in B
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A5DATE(2006,5,1)),--(B1:B5="green"))
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table:
1.5.2006 blue
2.5.2006 green
30.4.2005 green
21.5.2006 yellow
21.6.2006 blue

how can I count all the green guys with the datum after 1.5.2005?
countif will not probably work...