Thanks Paul. Very close to what I needed. Since I have my month/year in a
single column the solution provided by Ken was right on. I need to check on
"--", never heard of that before, except in the C programming language
(autodecrement), but I don't think that what it means here.

"PCLIVE" wrote:

You could use SUMPRODUCT.

=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH(C6:C53)=7),--(YEAR(C6:C53)=2007),--(Q6:Q53<31))

If the month, year and less than amount are in a cell, say A1, B1 and C1:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH(C6:C53)=A1),--(YEAR(C6:C53)=B1),--(Q6:Q53<C1))

HTH,
Paul


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"Leif" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to count the number of values, within a column over multiple
rows,
that fall within a range. I can do that with the COUNTIF function as
follows:

=COUNTIF(Q6:Q53,"<31")

However, now I want to extend that to break of the counts by month. I
have
a date in column C.

If I create twelve row, each with a month/year, I want to use the
month/year
against column C. Something like below (which does not work).

=IF(format(C6:C53,"MMYY")=format(A1, "MMYY"),COUNTIF(Q6:Q53,"<31"),0)

where cell A1 contains a date like 1-Jul-2007. For cell B I would like a
count where the month/year in C6:C53 is Jul-2007 AND the value in the
range
Q6:Q53 is less than 31.

Thanks
Leif