Spreadsheet A has a tab for every month of the year. Each tab has a column
for meeting date and several columns for initials. The date column does not
have a date in every row, so out of 20 or so rows, only two or three cells in
the date column will be filled in. The same for the initials; i.e. just
because a date is filled in, there may not be corresponding initials.

I created a second spreadsheet with a single tab and linked the cells to
those in spreadsheet A. Because there is not a date in every row, my results
look like this:

A B C
Date Div1 Div2
1 01/15/08 CC 0
2 01/00/00 0 0
3 01/00/00 0 0
4 02/25/08 0 JM
5 03/03/08 MS MW
6 01/00/00 0 0
etc.

What I want: I need to use a rolling date range, so that the spreadsheet
looks at column A and pulls all dates between Today()-90 and Today() and
gives me a count of how many of those rows have initials filled in for column
B and how many of those rows have initials filled in for column C.

I have tried using DCOUNTA with the following formula:
=DCOUNTA(A6:B204,"CL",$A$2:$B$2), but I cannot get it to work.

I can get it to work using the COUNTIF function such as follows:
=COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&B$4&"'!A:A"),"="&$B$2)-COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&B$4&"'!A:A"),""&$B$2-90)

But this just gives me a count for the rows of dates.

Any help is appreciated.

I see two things wrong
1) CL need to match the Header row of the column like Div1 and Div2 that are
in row1
2) The third field in countA need to include the header Row.

You want something like this
=DCOUNTA(A6:B204,"Div1",$A$1:$B$2),

click on the cell where DCountA is located and go to menu Insert - Function.
Then click on "Help On this Function" in the lower left of the popup window.
"CCripe" wrote:

Spreadsheet A has a tab for every month of the year. Each tab has a column
for meeting date and several columns for initials. The date column does not
have a date in every row, so out of 20 or so rows, only two or three cells in
the date column will be filled in. The same for the initials; i.e. just
because a date is filled in, there may not be corresponding initials.

I created a second spreadsheet with a single tab and linked the cells to
those in spreadsheet A. Because there is not a date in every row, my results
look like this:

A B C
Date Div1 Div2
1 01/15/08 CC 0
2 01/00/00 0 0
3 01/00/00 0 0
4 02/25/08 0 JM
5 03/03/08 MS MW
6 01/00/00 0 0
etc.

What I want: I need to use a rolling date range, so that the spreadsheet
looks at column A and pulls all dates between Today()-90 and Today() and
gives me a count of how many of those rows have initials filled in for column
B and how many of those rows have initials filled in for column C.

I have tried using DCOUNTA with the following formula:
=DCOUNTA(A6:B204,"CL",$A$2:$B$2), but I cannot get it to work.

I can get it to work using the COUNTIF function such as follows:
=COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&B$4&"'!A:A"),"="&$B$2)-COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&B$4&"'!A:A"),""&$B$2-90)

But this just gives me a count for the rows of dates.

Any help is appreciated.