I hope someone can PLEASE help me :)

How do you get a countif to work within a countif's results? I want it to
count how many cells within a range contain certain text and within the
results of that I want it to tell me how many fall within a range of dates.
This is to be reported on a seperate spreadsheet within the workbook so
filtering isn't an option.

I thought the below formula would work but it actually adds the count of
cells that contain the text "yhard" with the count of cells that fall within
the date range.

=COUNTIF('January- STD'!$C$7:$C269,"*yhard*")+((COUNTIF('January-
STD'!$G$9:$G$155,"<=01/30/2008")-COUNTIF($G$9:$G$155,"<01/01/2008")))

Is there a way to connect an AND and have the count ifs done in sequential
order by connecting the following 2 formulas?
#1 criteria =COUNTIF('January- STD'!$C$7:$C269,"*yhard*")
# 2 criteria =COUNTIF('January-
STD'!$G$9:$G$155,"<=01/30/2008")-COUNTIF('January-
STD'!$G$9:$G$155,"<01/01/2008")

Thank you thank you thank you in advance if there is a genious out there
that can help me solve my problem! :)