With start and end dates in cells c1 and D1 try the below

=SUMPRODUCT((A2:A10<C1)*(B2:B10D1))

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Jacob Skaria


"AccessNoviceButTrying" wrote:

I have two columns which both contains dates. I want a count based on
criteria from the dates. For example...

Start Date End Date
01/01/08 12/31/08
3/15/07 12/01/09
5/5/09 10/01/09
10/01/08

How would i get a total count of items that started before 06/01/08 and
ended after 06/01/09.

it would be 1 in the example above.

Thanks