Try this:

=COUNTIF(A1:A20,""&C1)

With the date in C1.
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HTH,

RD
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"bkclark" wrote in message
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How do I create a formula in Excel that will countif or sum if before or
after a specific date? Whenever I put the actual date in the formula it
works, but when I reference to the cell the date is in it returns 0.