That explains it.
I need to figure out how to extract the month from the date field. My
date field contains a day, month and year. When I click on a date field
the format is: 1/12/2004.

Jason Morin wrote:

No, I didn't misread your question. SUMPRODUCT is a
powerful alternative to array formulas as far as summing
and counting when multiple criterias are needed. But you
are right...it is simply a math function. To understand
what I'm talking about, read:

http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html

Jason

-----Original Message-----
According to my copy of EXCEL 2000, SUMPRODUCT is a math
function and
returns sums of multiplications

SUMPRODUCT
Multiplies corresponding components in the given arrays,
and returns the
sum of those products.

It would not work in doing what I want to do. You must
have
misunderstood my question.




Jason Morin wrote:

=SUMPRODUCT((TEXT(A1:A9,"mmm")="Jan")*(B1:B9="x"))

Count all instance of "x" where month = January.

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

-----Original Message-----
This is probably basic stuff.

I presently use COUNTIF to count the number of
instances
of the letter
"x" or "o" in a column:
=COUNTIF(B:B,"x")

I need to find totals of one condition in a column when
another column
has another condition.

In the following data range, for example, I might need
to find the
number of times "x" appears in column B during a
particular month, like
February, or during a certain time of day.

A B C
January 4 x morning
January 4 o afternoon
January 12 o morning
January 15 o morning
January 15 x afternoon
February 2 x morning
February 2 x morning
Ferbrary 4 o morning
February 10 x morning

I might also like to count, for example, the number of
times "x"
apppears in the morning in February.

Please write out examples. My date format is MM-DD-YY.

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