Actually, if appears to be a bit more complicated so use this
=COUNT(IF(MONTH(A8:A2000)=9,A8:A2000))
This is an array formula so should be entered with ctrl+shift+enter
change the 9 to a1, a2, etc

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"CD Web" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet that has one named range 'DATE' which contains a date
in the format 01-MAR-05.

I have a summary sheet that I have each month listed in 12 cells (Jan to
Dec).
I want to read the DATE range, and count the number of occurances which
fall
into each month.

Is this possible with a Excel funtion, or mixture of functions, or do I
need
to write my own?

Thanks for any help.

Regards

Chris Darlington