Thanks to everyone who replied. It all helped.

"Don Guillett" wrote:

try
=sumproduct((e2:e195629)*(e2:31956<40))

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"FinChase" wrote in message
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I am trying to write a countif statement where the criteria is a range of
numbers from 30 - 39. This is what I've written:

=countif(e2:e1956,"29<40")

Right now it is counting everything over 29.