Ok, now I'm not following you.
You said:
>have Availability date between D1 and D2.
> Right. But I don't know how to get a hold of the date.
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Supposing this is the data:
Sheet1
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A B
Title1 InStock
Title 2 Backorder
Sheet2
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A B
Title2 03/15/08
The formula to count “Number of items backordered with availability date
between 11/1/07 and 12/1/07” is:
sumproduct((Sheet1!B1:B100=”Backorder”)*((isnumber(match(Sheet1!A1:A100,Sheet2!A1:A50,0)))
and (Sheet2!<<matching dates in B1:B50 for A1:A50 titles>>=date(2007,11,1))
and (Sheet2!<<matching dates in B1:B50 for A1:A50 titles><=date(2007,12,1)))
I don’t know how to write the <matching dates in B1:B50 for A1:A50 titles>
part.
Thank you.
> Ok, now I'm not following you.
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T. Valko - 05 Feb 2008 18:08 GMT
Try this:
D1 = 11/1/2007
E1 = 12/1/2007
=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(MATCH(Sheet2!A1:A50&"backorder",Sheet1!A1:A100&Sheet1!B1:B100,0))),--(Sheet2!B1:B50>=D1),--(Sheet2!B1:B50<=E1))

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> Supposing this is the data:
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adimar - 05 Feb 2008 19:55 GMT
I tried in a few ways and still cannot get it to work. The “backorder” match
won’t work; an item title match is needed instead.
> Try this:
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T. Valko - 05 Feb 2008 20:01 GMT
There's a problem with the range sizes. The range on Sheet1 is longer than
the range on sheet2. Since the dates are on Sheet2 you have to test Sheet2
comapred to Sheet1, not test Sheet1 comapred to Sheet2.
I can't suggest anything else unless I can actually see the file. Is that
possible? If so, let me know how to contact you.

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> I tried in a few ways and still cannot get it to work. The "backorder"
> match
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adimar - 05 Feb 2008 23:09 GMT
This one returns the correct backorder date.
=VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!A1:B100,2,FALSE)
I'm still scanning other posts... If I cannot get to include this in a
SUMPRODUCT or INDEX/MATCH (to count all items) I plan to paste the above in a
new column on Sheet1, run the additional step of counting and call it done
for now, optimization later.
> There's a problem with the range sizes. The range on Sheet1 is longer than
> the range on sheet2. Since the dates are on Sheet2 you have to test Sheet2
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