On 1/03/2012 11:11 AM, CNWatsonJr wrote:
I am trying to count blanks cells with conditions.

In column 'A' I have a list of dates and in column 'B' I have a list of
group numbers (two digits, formatted as text - to preserve two digits
under the value of 10). Some of the cells in column 'B' are blank (no
group number assigned).

I need to count the blank cells that occur between a specific date
range.

I have tried countif, sumproduct, and nested if functions but I am just
not getting it right. I am either getting a value of 0, false or just a
plain error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Hi

As for using Text for preservation of your numbering format, you can use
a Custom Number Format that = 00 which will display any single digit
number with a leading zero.

This will get you counts of the specific criteria of each Group,
although I could not get the right syntax for the additional date range
criteria to work.

Group. 1 =COUNTIF($B$2:$B$10,"=01")
Group. 2 =COUNTIF($B$2:$B$10,"=02")
Group. 3 =COUNTIF($B$2:$B$10,"=03")
Group. 4 =COUNTIF($B$2:$B$10,"=04")
Non-Grouped =COUNTIF($B$2:$B$10,"")

HTH
Mick.