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Asked: 2026-06-16T16:11:36+00:00

I have an Excel document that has a date column (A) and a column

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I have an Excel document that has a date column (A) and a column containing strings (B) one one sheet. On another sheet, I am doing calculations. If the cell in column A is between DATE(2012,1,1) and DATE(2012,6,1) AND the same row in column B contains “string” in any part (string) then it should count that row. Google mentioned using SUMPRODUCT but I was only able to get date between to work. Below is the SUMPRODUCT for date between.

=SUMPRODUCT(--('Sheet1'!A:A>=DATE(2012,1,1)),--('Sheet1'!A:A>=DATE(2012,6,1)))

I tried using this for the final value but it is incorrect.

=SUMPRODUCT(--('Sheet1'!A:A>=DATE(2012,1,1)),--('Sheet1'!A:A>=DATE(2012,6,1)),--('Sheet1'!B:B="*"&"string"&"*"))

EDIT: Apparently the above works, but the string must be EQUAL to the value. * is not being recognized as a wildcard.

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are using whole columns in SUMPRODUCT you must have Excel 2007 or later (otherwise that doesn’t work), and you can use wildcards in COUNTIFS

    =COUNTIFS('Sheet1'!A:A,">="&DATE(2012,1,1),'Sheet1'!A:A,"<="&DATE(2012,6,1),'Sheet1'!B:B,"*String*")

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