Both Don and Ron's solutions worked. Thanks for your help


"Ron Coderre" wrote:

Try something like this:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(TEXT(A2:A100,"yyyymm")="200701"))

Is that something you can work with?
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Regards,

Ron
Microsoft MVP (Excel)
(XL2003, Win XP)

"MikeG" wrote in message
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I would like to count the numbers of entris in a column that have the same
month and year. Each value has a date defined as mm/dd/yyyy.

Ex. how many entries are there for January 2007?

do I use countif?