Excellent! Thanks Max, most appreciated!!

"Max" wrote:

Try:

=COUNTIF(K5:K1136,""&Data_Ranges!C3)
-COUNTIF(K5:K1136,""&Data_Ranges!C4)

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"nme#1" wrote in message
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Hi I'm trying to get a countif argument to work where the condition is
greter
than "a reference", ie:

=(COUNTIF(K5:K1136,"DATA_RANGES!C3"))-COUNTIF(K5:K1136,"DATA_RANGES!C4")

I am guessing it is simple, but just can't figure it out......