Dates are nothing more than numbers in Excel, so any cell
in col. H with a value of 38,456 (which equates to April
14, 2005) will be counted in your formula. You need to
somehow distinguish actual dates from ordinary numbers in
your column.

To learn more about date/time in XL, see:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm#SerialDates

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

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Hi

I want to count the dates in a column that are less than
today, so i am using:

=COUNTIF('AM Live'!H:H,"<="&TODAY())

But this returns the wrong value.
In column H is other data than dates and think this is
causing the error.

At the moment it returns 88 but there are only 9 or so
less than today???

Thanks

John
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