Formula help in Numbers

First of all, thanks in advance. This forum has been a great asset to all of us novice users.
I have a spreadsheet with many sheets within. What I am trying to do is pull info from all sheets into a table so that it makes for a more automated system at the end of the month for billing.
I have a main sheet showing info already gathered from each individual sheet. Each individual sheet is a customer. What I need to do is grab all the info from each sheet, but only if it falls within a selected date window. Not every customer has info entered each month. Some might go several months with no data entered. Right now I have to click each sheet and see if there are any entries for the month, then print that sheet. This wasn't a big deal with 10-15 customers. But now that I have almost 30+ sheets, it has become a tricky task. And I only want to show the selected date window, it keep all the other data totals that come from that sheet. Basically, I need to see if I showed up and did something at that customers property during the month.
I will get more detailed and post up a shared link if this is a possibility.
Thanks
Jeff

Hi Jeff,
A disclaimer of sorts: I am giving you small picture answers here because I don't really know how all the data is getting used specifically. I imagine there are ways of streamlining your workflow that would surprise you. ok.
Everytime you add a customer you will need to adjust the formula in your report table. As you add rows to the Table I am now calling "Print Bills" the formula in column B will fill with the link to the last customer table. You will need to manually link to their new table- what you are calling sheets. In my example there are no formulas in the customer tables.
A nested IF means testing one IF statement and then testing another. So we want to test both year and month we might start with:
IF(YEAR($B$1)=YEAR(Bob::A),if-true,"N") this tests the year and returns N if they don't match. In place of if-true we insert our original formula:
IF(MONTH($A$1)=MONTH(Bob::A),"Y","N")
to get:
IF(YEAR($B$1)=YEAR(Bob::A),IF(MONTH($A$1)=MONTH(Bob::A),"Y","N"),"N")
If the year doesn't match return "N", if it does check if the month matches- "Y" or "N"
You can see why too many nested IFs can make you crazy.
The table looks different and B1 needs to be formatted as Date/Time.
Here's a bonus so you can check if every bill was printed. The formula is in C1.
And congrats on your booming biz!
quinn

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