I use the following and get the correct result
=COUNTIF(B4:B7,""&B10)
where B10 holds the date

"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.