Use cells to hold your date boundaries:

A1 = start date = 1/1/2008
B1 = end date = 1/31/2008

A3:A12 = dates

If you're using Excel 2007:

=COUNTIFS(A3:A12,"="&A1,A3:A12,"<="&B1)

For any version of Excel:

=COUNTIF(A3:A12,"="&A1)-COUNTIF(A3:A12,""&B1)

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Stilmovin" wrote in message
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I have been looking all over this site trying to find the answer and came
up
with nothing.
I have a spread sheet that contains three columns: Date Cost Award
I am trying to count the number of awarded between a date(January)
I have tried the sumproduct and sumif equations to come up with the
following

=COUNTIFS(P6:R93,"0",E6:E93,"2008Jan")
- #Value!

=COUNTIF(E5:E80,"=10/9/2008")-COUNTIF(E5:E80,"=10/10/2008")
- This resulted in only counting the dates and not the # of Awarded

HELP!!