With so little info I am going to do some mind reading based on dates in col
a and the values in column b and you want the 1st month.

=sumproduct((month(a2:a22)=1)*b2:b22)

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"Warm FL" wrote in message
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In a field, I have the date 1/1/2008, but I only want to know that is was
JANUARY. Because I want to know if the current month is ,< or = the
month
that is in that field.

This is being used when comparing previous years sales activities. So if
I
got the order in Jan 15, 2008 for my annual product, then I would expect
my
new order to come in Jan 2009 (but not necesarily on the 15th).

Any ideas?