oops forgot to say,
for details on the SUMPRODUCT function check out
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html

"cmarsh5035" wrote in message
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I'm working with 2 columns out of an Excel spreadsheet. First column "B"
is
list of names (some cells may be blank) and the second column "F" contains
years (2001, 2002, etc.). I'd like to count non blank cells in "B" which
meet the criteria (2005) in the years "F" column.