Thanks, that does the job! How could I modify this to only sum items in
column B if both the month in column A matches *and* a boolean value in
column C is true?

"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

Try SUMPRODUCT() with TEXT()

=SUMPRODUCT((TEXT(A1:A100,"mmmyyyy")="Apr2010")*B1 :B100)

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Jacob (MVP - Excel)


"steve_m" wrote:

I've got a list of dates dd/mm/yyyy in column A and a list of the numbers in
column B which is related to the number of occurrences of something on each
date listed. There are some gaps in the dates ie. it is not a continuous
calendar list.

What I need to do is count the total number of occurrences in April 2010 for
example. I've tried using SUMPRODUCT but I'm stuck! I've managed to count the
number of times a date in April 2010 is listed but not the sum of number of
occurrences in April 2010 from the column B? Hopefully that is semi-clear?!!