Thanks heaps, have triple checked and this definitely fixes the prob. I had
blanks which were being counted.

Thanks heaps also Tyro :) thanks

"T. Valko" wrote:

If you have empty cells in N1:N100 those would be counted if BM1:BM100 =
yes.

To prevent that:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(N1:N100)),--(N1:N100<TODAY()),--(BM1:BM100="yes"))


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"JHolmes" wrote in message
...
I was using the formula below:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(N1:N100<TODAY()),--(BM1:BM100="yes"))

and it doesnt actually only return the number of rows which have both a
date
in the past in col N AND have a value of "yes" in col BM.
it is then returning the total amount of times "Yes" is in BM - not just
the
amount of times that it occurs in a row where the date (col N) is before
today's date. Any idea how i can restrict it to just where the date is in
the
past AND col BM ="Yes"?
thankx again...