Countifs for specific Nth day of current month

[nadimqaisar]

I need a countifs formula for counting the specific Nth day in the current month. E.g. The date format I am using is mm/dd/yyyy.

[Glenn Kennedy]

Will you please attach a SMALL sample Excel workbook (10-20 rows of data is usually enough)? However, please give us an indication of the approximate number of rows of data you want the solution to work with (100, 1000, 100,000 or whatever). Please don't attach a picture of an Excel sheet (no-one will want to re-type all your stuff before starting).

1. It does NOT have to be your real sheet - mock up a SAMPLE if you need to. But not 1000's of rows!!! It makes manual checking so tedious. Whatever you do... make sure that all confidential information is removed first!!

2. Make sure that your sample data are truly REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.

3. Make sure that your desired solution is also shown (mock up the results manually).

4. Try to avoid using merged cells. They cause lots of problems!

Unfortunately the attachment icon doesn't work at the moment. So, to attach an Excel file you have to do the following: Just before posting, scroll down to Go Advanced and then scroll down to Manage Attachments. Now follow the instructions at the top of that screen.

[nadimqaisar]

Thank a lot. I have attached a sample excel file where the data is in sheet1 and the result should reflect in sheet2

[Glenn Kennedy]

Try again!! the attachment didn't attach.

[nadimqaisar]

Please check now

[Glenn Kennedy]

With a minor change to the layout:

=COUNTIFS(Sheet1!$A:$A,DATE($B$2,MONTH($B$1&1),$A4),Sheet1!$B:$B,B$3)

copied across and dnown...

[nadimqaisar]

Thanks Glenn. But I don't have to add any extra things like you have added. I can only use what exactly I have provided. I was trying to use the formula =COUNTIFS(Sheet1!$A:$A,"=DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(TODAY()),2)",Sheet1!$B:$B,"Medium") for 2nd September but it returning a value "0" whereas there must be some count.

Now I got where I went wrong. The formula that I am using needed once correction. I had to remove "=" sign appearing before "DATE". That's it. Now it's working. So the correct formula is

=COUNTIFS(Sheet1!$A:$A,DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(TODAY()),2),Sheet1!$B:$B,"Medium")

[Glenn Kennedy]

Fair enough... but you didn't say that you couldn't change the layout. Be aware, that today() is voltile and will recalculate every time ANYTHING changes on your sheet. This can cause performance issues.

However... You're welcome.

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