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Countifs function comparing the number of occurrences of a value within a date range without having to change the date for every cell?

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I am a self-taught excel newbie and am trying to help automate the calculation of the stats at my job (meaning I will likely be back with multiple more questions).

For this problem, I am trying to get the data to automatically calculate as information is entered in another sheet to determine how often certain values (e.g. "Academic") appear within each month. For some reason, when I put the cell (H2) in place of the date, excel does not register it as a cell and will not complete the calculation. The only solution I have found is to have to individually type out each date range rather than referring to the cell that contains the date range.

Further, is there a way to not have to include the year? in this job, we have a separate file for every school year meaning there will be no overlap of month causing issues that way. I am trying to find an easier way to do a year to year comparison without having to include helper columns with the beginning and end dates of each month per year.

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Thank you!

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