Do you really mean to count the items, or sum the amounts (albeit they are
in text form)?

Can you give us some sample data.

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"tjkyon" wrote in message
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Hi, I'm trying to get excel to count the last 12 months of data in a
particular row for multiple years. The data in the rows are not numeric
values, but text values. Basically, on a monthly basis, I want the sheet
to
get rid of the oldest month and include the newest month (currently, i
want
the sheet to drop jan '04 and add jan '05).....

any thoughts?

thanks