The dates are stored as serial numbers, so your 10/31 won't work. Try a
helper column, for example =DAY(A1)&"/"&MONTH(A1), or =TEXT(A1,"dd/mm"), and
then you can auto-filter on that column.
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David Biddulph

"Al" wrote in message
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Column A has a range of dates go backwards through time to 1/1/1946. I
want
to set up recuring values in columns B, C, D to track holidays and other
assorted info. I got to auto filter and set criteria to custom, contains,
10/31* for Halloween and it returns no values. Basically I want to be
able
to filter to get all results for a specific date regardless of year.

How?