Multiple sheets - Count all Occurances of the word "Early" if between two dates

Hi

I'm looking for some help on my spreadsheet.

I have multiple Sheets (named January through to December).

Each contains a list of possible dates within the month in column A3 down.

Then, accross several columns on each of the sheets, it could say "Early", "Late" and "On time".

What I am trying to achieve (yet really struggling) is to look on each sheet and if the date in column A falls between a specified date range (which is typed into 2 cells on my summary sheet - start and end date), I need a formula to count all occurances of the word "Early".

Is there anyone who can give me any pointers on the best formula to achieve this, please?

Try this as a model ....

=SUMPRODUCT(SUMIF(INDIRECT("'"&R3:R10&"'!f6:f500"),B3,INDIRECT("'"&R3:R4&"'!H6:H500")))

R4:R10 is a list of your sheets which equally could be replaced by a named range

I see that you already have several excellent answers, however since I started working on this before the others were offered, I thought I would add it anyway.

Summary by Months.xlsx

Hope this helps.

Thank you every one for your help so far, I will give all these a try tomorrow morning and report back.

Unfortunately, I didn't set up the spreadsheet I'm building the summary page for which has made things a little bit more complicated all round.