Roger,Lars thank you very much,Roger I used your formula it works perfect but
it should be in the last column,thanks again.This community rules

"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi

Try
=COUNTBLANK($C$4:INDEX($C$4:$IK$159,156,MATCH($A$1-1,$C$2:$IK$2,0)))

I used cell A1 to hold the date, into which I entered 04 Aug 08 (as Today()
is past that date).
You can either put =TODAY() in cell A1, or substitute Today() in place of
$A$1 in the formula.

Incidentally, I make the answer 468, not 312.
There are three columns of 156 rows for 1/8, 2/8 and 3/8 hence 468 blanks.

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Regards
Roger Govier

"MAANI" wrote in message
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C2 to IK2 have dates from 1-Aug-08 to 31-Mar-09, B4 to B159 eployee
names,I
want a formula to count blanks before todays date,Example:if today is
4-Aug-08, I want the formula to return 312 which is countblank(C4:E159)