Works Perfect - for info this was the formula I was trying but the other way
round

thank you

"Mike H" wrote:

Hi,

This isn't clear and you may have to post some sample data but how about this

=SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$A$200=C1)*($B$1:$B$200="Text"))

Drag down and it will check a range of dates that appear in c1 down

Mike

"K" wrote:

I have 2 columns one is date & the other is text - I need a formula to tell
me how many times each text appears on each date

I thought =Sumproduct((A1:A200="date")*(B1:B200="Text")) would work. The
even more complicated bit is the "date" bit is in a cell to enable it to be
copied down