I need to be able to do this for data entry purposes though so I need column
A to match up with the right cells in B, C, D, etc...

I'm not sure I understand what you guys are saying by using the helper
cells... Sould I set up the formulas in columb b to basicaly translate that
informatoin into text?

"Al" wrote:

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?