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Please can you help; I need to amend the formula held in sheet2 of my workbook ("Stats table") cell reference F6.

The formula current counts B14:B2000 sheet1

I need to amend this formula so that it only counts within a particular date range. The date range will be From/To F3:F4

So only dates which fall between “from” and “to” would be returned in the total count.

For example B17 sheet 1 would be omitted from the total count because the 07/03/2011 falls outside the date range in F3:F4 Sheet 2



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Gazza83Asked:
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barry houdiniConnect With a Mentor Commented:
Hello Gazza,

2 of your dates (the first two in 'Low Volume'!B14:B15) are formatted as text [check by using this formula, =ISNUMBER(B14), you'll get FALSE when it should be TRUE for dates]. If you use this formula where the +0 converts those text-formatted dates to true dates.....

=SUMPRODUCT(('Low Volume'!B14:B20000+0>=F3)*('Low Volume'!B14:B20000+0<=F4))

....then you'll get a result of 3 as required

but I recommend you make those dates consistently dates. Where do they come from? If you select that column and use

Data > text to columns > Finish then that will also convert and you won't need the +0s in the formula.....

regards, barry
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SiddharthRoutConnect With a Mentor Commented:
Try this formula there

=SUMPRODUCT(('Low Volume'!B14:B20000>='Stats Table'!D3)*('Low Volume'!B14:B200002<='Stats Table'!D4))

Sid
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Zack BarresseCEOCommented:
Hi there,

Perhaps you could use something like this ...

=SUMPRODUCT((('Low Volume'!$B$14:$B$2000)>=F3)*(('Low Volume'!$B$14:$B$2000)<=F4))

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Zack
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Gazza83Author Commented:
Thanks Guys,

This formula comes back with a  result of 1, when I know the result should equal 3:-

=SUMPRODUCT((('Low Volume'!$B$14:$B$2000)>=F3)*(('Low Volume'!$B$14:$B$2000)<=F4))

I changed the D3 to F3 and D4 to F3 but the result come back as #Name?

=SUMPRODUCT(('Low Volume'!B14:B20000>='Stats Table'!D3)*('Low Volume'!B14:B200002<='Stats Table'!D4))
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Zack BarresseCEOCommented:
Maybe it's your formatting.  The actual value of F4 (Date To) is 3/6/2011, while it shows a format of Sun 06/03/2011.  I'm assuming you are looking at it wrong.  ??  Your format of F3:F4 is "ddd dd/mm/yyyy", while it should be "ddd mm/dd/yyyy" (without quotes of course).

Zack
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Zack BarresseConnect With a Mentor CEOCommented:
And also, FWIW, if you wanted a dynamic range (instead of hard coding your range) you could amend the formula to be...

=SUMPRODUCT((('Low Volume'!$B$14:INDEX('Low Volume'!$B:$B,MATCH(9.9E+307,'Low Volume'!$B:$B),1))>=F3)*(('Low Volume'!$B$14:INDEX('Low Volume'!$B:$B,MATCH(9.9E+307,'Low Volume'!$B:$B),1))<=F4))

Zack
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Gazza83Author Commented:
double checked the formats so that they are all *dd/mm/yyyy unfortunatly no joy
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SiddharthRoutCommented:
Gazza it is working fine for me. What dates are you putting in and where?

Sid
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Zack BarresseCEOCommented:
I only see one value which matches the date range, so I'm not sure where you're getting 3 from.  ???

You only have four values on your 'Low Volume' worksheet.  1/3/2011, 1/3/2011, 3/1/2011, 3/7/2011.  For the dates between the date range you specified in F3 and F4 of 'Stats Table' worksheet, 2/1/2011 and 3/6/2011, only one date matches between that range.  Can you explain how it should be 3?

Zack
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Gazza83Author Commented:
I've kept the spreadsheet the same, only the formulas result should equal "3" but maybe I'm doing something wrong.
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barry houdiniCommented:
Zack,

If the workbook is opened with UK regional settings then (and Gazza is UK based, I assume) then it looks to me as if all the dates in B14:B17 are in March (the first 3 all display the same) so those 3 should all be counted, I believe, but as I say above the first 2 are text-formatted so if you open with US date settings that makes the first 2 look different from the third.....

barry
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Zack BarresseCEOCommented:
Regional Settings aside, it shouldn't matter.  The function returns what it should.  (And I saw the text on the first sheet, but the formula coerced it, so I wasn't worried about it.)  On the 'Stats Table' worksheet, the format shows different than the value.  I'm thinking this is what is confusing the OP.

Zack
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