Thanks Roger,

It works great for all the months except for Jan.
I used the following formula for Jan and instead of returning 3 it returned
77.

=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($B$1:$B$100)=1))

I'm not sure why, if you have any ideas please let me know.

Thanks,
Joyce

From: "Roger Govier"
To: "Joyce"
Subject: How to count the number of times something occurs within a
certain month
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:11 AM

Hi Joyce

One way
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($A$1:$A$100)=2)
for February
Change to 3 for March etc. or put the Month number required in a cell and
refer to the cell
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($A$1:$A$100)=B1)

Regards

Roger Govier


Joyce wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I should do the following?

I have a table column that contains dates like,

1 Feb 05
6 Feb 05
27 Feb 05
7 Mar 05
20 Mar 05

I want to be able to count Feb = 3 and Mar = 2.

Thanks!
Joyce

Blanks and zeros will come up as "1" for the month() figure
if you have non dates if would use
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($B$1:$B$100)=1),--($B$1:$B$10036525))
if all of your dates are later than 1999.
"Joyce" wrote:

Thanks Roger,

It works great for all the months except for Jan.
I used the following formula for Jan and instead of returning 3 it returned
77.

=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($B$1:$B$100)=1))

I'm not sure why, if you have any ideas please let me know.

Thanks,
Joyce

From: "Roger Govier"
To: "Joyce"
Subject: How to count the number of times something occurs within a
certain month
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:11 AM

Hi Joyce

One way
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($A$1:$A$100)=2)
for February
Change to 3 for March etc. or put the Month number required in a cell and
refer to the cell
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($A$1:$A$100)=B1)

Regards

Roger Govier


Joyce wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I should do the following?

I have a table column that contains dates like,

1 Feb 05
6 Feb 05
27 Feb 05
7 Mar 05
20 Mar 05

I want to be able to count Feb = 3 and Mar = 2.

Thanks!
Joyce

Hi Joyce

I guess some of the cells in the range were blank. Excel would have treated
them as being 01 Jan 1900, and therefore counted them in with the month 1 total

We can add another condition to the formula
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($B$1:$B$100)=1,--($B$1:$B$100<""))
which will test for null values.

Regards

Roger Govier


Joyce wrote:
Thanks Roger,

It works great for all the months except for Jan.
I used the following formula for Jan and instead of returning 3 it returned
77.

=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($B$1:$B$100)=1))

I'm not sure why, if you have any ideas please let me know.

Thanks,
Joyce

From: "Roger Govier"
To: "Joyce"
Subject: How to count the number of times something occurs within a
certain month
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:11 AM

Hi Joyce

One way
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($A$1:$A$100)=2)
for February
Change to 3 for March etc. or put the Month number required in a cell and
refer to the cell
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH($A$1:$A$100)=B1)

Regards

Roger Govier


Joyce wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I should do the following?

I have a table column that contains dates like,

1 Feb 05
6 Feb 05
27 Feb 05
7 Mar 05
20 Mar 05

I want to be able to count Feb = 3 and Mar = 2.

Thanks!
Joyce