Thanks mama, but now im getting a value of 0??!!

any other ideas? this is how i typed it
=SUMPRODUCT(--(E1:E89000<DATE(2010,2,5)),--(LEFT(U1:U89000)="FHLM*"))

"Teethless mama" wrote:

Correction:

should be <Date(2010,2,5)


"Teethless mama" wrote:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(E1:E100<=DATE(2010,2,5)),--(LEFT(U1:U100,4)="FHLM"))


"Senor Martinez" wrote:

IM trying to create a formula that gives me a total count for cells that are
less than 02/05/10 and the name begins with FHLM, heres what i came up
with...

=COUNTIF(E:E,"="&DATE(1900,1,1))-COUNTIF(E:E,"="&DATE(2010,2,5))+COUNTIF(E:E,DATE( 2010,2,5))-COUNTIF(U:U,"FHLM*")

I keep gettin a bunch of ###### or 0, depending on how I move the data
around..

Any ideas????