Frequency of months occuring

**gbug1** · 09-03-2012, 10:26 PM

Hi all,
I have a spreadsheet that has a list of new employees, and their start date.
I want to be able to show how many starters by month.

So for example in January there were 15, Febuary 12, and so on. I want to then graph this information.
I cant figure out the formula to use here, as the dates are written in full, ie 05/07/2012, and i cant use the 'findif' function.

Any help is appreciated!

**Dunc3142** · 09-04-2012, 01:08 AM

I think I understand see example in attached.

**gbug1** · 09-04-2012, 02:02 AM

Brilliant. Thanks that works.

**twiggywales** · 09-04-2012, 04:08 AM

you could also use this array formula

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entered with ctrl+shift+enter.

this would eliminate the helper column

**Cutter** · 09-04-2012, 10:03 AM

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