> I tested the formula before I posted it and it worked for me at that time.
> Do you have *real* dates in Column B or are they text values (you can check
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When Rick said that you could check by using Format/Cells, what I think he
meant is that if you use Format/ Cells to change the date format
temporarily, for example to dd mmm yyyy, if the display in the cell changes
they are real dates, but if they don't change they are text. Try that.
Also, remember to check all the rows in the column. If, for example, you
have a field description saying "date" in cell B1, this would give a #VALUE!
error from the formula.
You could check with =SUM(--(ISTEXT(B1:B70000))) as an *array formula*
entered with Control Shift Enter. It should give zero if you have no text
entries in your range.
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David Biddulph
> Rick
> My dates are *real* dates and for your information my date settings are in
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Vijay DSK - 20 Oct 2008 13:36 GMT
Friends,
Thanks once again for the help. Rick, once again thanks, the formula advised
by you a master piece. Only mistake i did was there are some gaps in the
column which were filled by "-", so the formula doesn't worked out.
Any how thanks once again you people.
> When Rick said that you could check by using Format/Cells, what I think he
> meant is that if you use Format/ Cells to change the date format
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Rick Rothstein - 20 Oct 2008 14:49 GMT
So you don't have an answer to your question yet then, right?
Give this array-entered** formula a try...
=SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(B1:B65535),MONTH(B1:B65535)=11,0)*IF(ISNUMBER(B1:B65535),YEAR(B1:B65535)=2008,0))
**Commit the formula with Ctrl+Shift+Enter, not just with Enter by itself.

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> Friends,
> Thanks once again for the help. Rick, once again thanks, the formula
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Vijay DSK - 20 Oct 2008 16:13 GMT
Off course i got the answer for the problem by replacing the "-" with space
any how once again thanks for taking much pain in this. And another request
posted by me was at
"http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.
public.excel.worksheet.functions&tid=90b0d103-f35c-4a98-b56d-3a4525f50d60&cat=&l
ang=en&cr=US&sloc=&m=1&p=1"
can u just look into this and suggest me an idea
Thanks once again
> So you don't have an answer to your question yet then, right?
>
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Rick Rothstein - 20 Oct 2008 16:22 GMT
Post an example of what data you have and what you want.

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