Stan,

The following will work, just not on a whole column

=SUMPRODUCT((YEAR(A1:A1000)=2003)*1)

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Stan Altshuller" wrote in message
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Hi All!

I have a column of dates in column A:A and want to count the number of
dates
that have the year 2003 in them.
I am trying to use =countif(year(A:A),2003) but it does not want to take
that formula, it says there is a mistake in it.

Can anyone help?

Thanks so much!!

Stan