How to Use COUNTIFS with Date Range in Google Sheets

To use COUNTIFS with a date range in Google Sheets, you need to combine the COUNTIFS function with the proper date criteria. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to do it:

1. Prepare your data in Google Sheets, making sure you have columns with dates and the other criteria you want to count.
2. In an empty cell, type the following formula:

=COUNTIFS(date_range,">="&start_date, date_range,"<="&end_date, criteria_range1, criteria1, criteria_range2, criteria2, ...)

Replace the following variables:

• date_range: The range of cells containing the dates.
• start_date: The start date of the range you want to count.
• end_date: The end date of the range you want to count.
• criteria_range1: The range of cells containing the first criteria.
• criteria1: The first criteria to be met.
• criteria_range2: The range of cells containing the second criteria (optional).
• criteria2: The second criteria to be met (optional).

You can continue adding criteria ranges and criteria as needed.

Example

Let's consider the following dataset:

We want to count the number of rows where the date is between January 2nd and January 4th, the category is "A", and the status is "Open". Here's how to do it:

1. In an empty cell, type the following formula:

=COUNTIFS(A2:A6,">="&"2021-01-02", A2:A6,"<="&"2021-01-04", B2:B6, "A", C2:C6, "Open")

2. Press Enter to see the result. In this case, the formula will return 1 since there's only one row that meets all the criteria.

Remember to adjust the ranges and criteria according to your specific dataset.