Simply elegant, thankyou very much, worked a treat.
and you were too kind, i was way off hehe :)

"T. Valko" wrote:

You were close. Try this:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A16:A3851=B2),--(A16:A3851<=B3),--(C16:C3851="no show"))


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"peterpeter" wrote in message
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I want to count the no of times text [No Show]appears n column C, within a
date range, where the dates are in column A & start & end dates can be
entered into cells B2 & B3 respectively. rows used for dates & data are
16:3851
Tried countif & sumproduct and have come to the realisation i need
specific
help.
the following is the last iteration of where i was going...probably way
off,
any help would be appreciated...

=SUMPRODUCT((MATCH(C16:C3851,"No
Show",0))*((A16:A3851=B2)*(A16:A3851<=B3)))