One way...

=SUMPRODUCT(--(TEXT('C:\Users\[monitor.xls]Adjusting
Output'!$A$3:$A$10001,"mmmyyyy")="Mar2010"))

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"gooders" wrote in message
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Hi, I have a column that is predominately filled with dates i.e.
1/12/2010;
16/4/2010 etc, and my formula below counted the number of rows based upon
the
month and year of these dates, this worked well until now. Some fields
within
the column now have text instead of a date and this has now messed up my
formula which returns a #value error. Any assistance you can give would
be
greately appreciated.

Thanking you in advance.

=SUMPRODUCT(N(MONTH('C:\Users\[monitor.xls]Adjusting
Output'!$A$3:$A$10001)=3),N(YEAR('C:\Users\[monitor.xls]Adjusting
Output'!$A$3:$A$10001)=2010))