I'm at work and don't have a lot of time, but I can tell you this, Mike .... If you want everything in 2006, don't use the asterisk ... Use >12/31/05 with <01/01/07 ... Excel will understand that. You can nest them with the AND function so Excel reads it as greater than Dec. 31, 2005 AND less than Jan 1, 2007 Linda F. Johnson Linda's Computer Stop Author, MOS: Excel 2003 Study Guide, published by John Wiley and Sons http://personal-computer-tutor.com -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Rubinfeld Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:14 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Help with countif using wildcards in Excel All, I am trying to use countif in a spreadsheet to tell me how many items were purchased in 2006. I have a column (H) which has all the dates of purchases from this year and in the past. The dates are displayed in the form mm/dd/yy, nut when you edit it it shows the 4-digit year. I come up with COUNTIF(H:H,"*06*") but that returns 0. Can some one tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Mike Rubinfeld ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************