=SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A200=--"2006-0101"),--(A2:A200<--"2006-04-01"),B2:B200)

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Bob Phillips

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"Arristabryan" wrote in message
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I have a sheet for my small business. I want to sum all purchases that
have
occurred between two dates i.e. each quarter. I have tried using SUMIF
then
specifying for range the date entered, then for the criteria I used say
1.1.06 AND <1.4.06 then for the sum range the correspoding values for
each
date entry. however i justy keep getting an error. Any of you genius' out
there got any ideas please