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Default Counting Data from Another Worksheet - Countif


Okay, I have data on two worksheets. Two columns on each worksheet, one
is "NAME" and one is "DATE".

Sheet1:

NAME DATE
BOB 7/31/06
STEVE 7/31/06
JOE 7/31/06
KEVIN 7/31/06

Sheet2:

NAME DATE
BOB 8/15/06
BOB 7/15/06
BOB 6/15/06
STEVE 9/15/06
STEVE 8/15/06
STEVE 7/15/06
STEVE 6/15/06
JOE 5/15/06
JOE 4/15/06
KEVIN 7/15/06
KEVIN 6/15/06
KEVIN 5/15/06

So what I want is a formula on each row on Sheet1 that tells me how
many times a particular name from Sheet1 has a corresponding date on
Sheet2 that occurs before the date on Sheet1. For instance, the first
row on Sheet1 has Bob 7/31/06. So I'd want to know how many dates for
Bob on Sheet2 occur before 7/31/06.

If I do COUNTIF(Sheet2!B2:B4,"<="&b2) it returns the correct result,
but I have to change the range it's looking manually for each line.
How do I get it to find it's own range based on the Name from the first
sheet?

Thanks in advance.


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