Try something like this.
=sumproduct((month(a2:a22)=1)*(month(a2:a22)<mont h(today())-1)*b2:b22)

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
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"Jani" wrote in message
...
I have 12 months worth of previous year's data in Excel (January-December)
but only want to graph certain months data. Not sure how to explain this.
If
the current month is October, than I want to pull data from
January-August;
if current month is December, than I want to pull data from
January-October.
Does anyone know how I can do this with a formula? I've exhausted my
limited
knowledge and not had any success.

Thank you!
Jani