Not sure if a COUNTIFS formula is the way to go

[willow1985]

Hello,

Can anyone help me with a formula that counts invoice dates?

Not sure if CountIF can do this or not

Basically count how many items were invoiced in the current month and then another formula to count how many in the previous month Both for the current year.

The formulas I am currently using seem to have errors and do not account for the current year:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(TEXT('WO Report'!M2:M1000001,"mmyyyy")=TEXT(TODAY(),"mmyyyy")))
=SUMPRODUCT(--(TEXT('WO Report'!M2:M1000001,"mmyyyy")=TEXT(EDATE(TODAY(),-1),"mmyyyy")))

For the first formula I should be getting a result of 260 but I am getting a result of 266 and
for the 2nd I should be getting a result of 258 instead I am getting 269 and I do not know why.

Here is the data:

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[TD]Tab Names: WO Report[/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
[TD]Tab Name: Tables[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
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[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Column M[/TD]
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[TD]Column V[/TD]
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[TD]Column S[/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
[TD]Current Month B14[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Invoice Date[/TD]
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[TD]Month[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Current Year[/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
[TD]Previous Month B15[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
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[/TR]
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[TD]2019-09-01[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]September[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]2019[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Formula[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]2019-09-25[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]September[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]2019[/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2019-08-11[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]August[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]2019[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2018-08-01[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]August[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]2018[/TD]
[TD]

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[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Answer should be for this data: 2 for current month and 1 for previous month

Thank you guys for your help!

Carla

 

[Eric W]

I can't tell why it's not working without seeing the rest of your data. COUNTIFS might work for you though. Try:

=COUNTIFS('WO Report'!M:M,">"&EOMONTH(TODAY(),-1),'WO Report'!M:M,"<="&EOMONTH(TODAY(),0))

to count dates in the current month, and

=COUNTIFS('WO Report'!M:M,">"&EOMONTH(TODAY(),-2),'WO Report'!M:M,"<="&EOMONTH(TODAY(),-1))

to count dates in the previous month.

 

[willow1985]

Both of the formulas are returning a count of 0

 

[Eric W]

Then I assume the dates in column M are text values, not Excel dates. If so, try:

=COUNTIF('WO Report'!M:M,TEXT(TODAY(),"yyyy-mm")&"*")

and

=COUNTIF('WO Report'!M:M,TEXT(EDATE(TODAY(),-1),"yyyy-mm")&"*")

And that could be your problem. If your column has a mixture of text and dates, the results from the formulas would be unreliable.

 

[willow1985]

This appears to be working! Thank you very much

 

[Eric W]

Glad it works for you!