Dashboard help!

wrigglybunny

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I have created a dashboard which contains multiple slicers, pivot tables and graphs. The idea being that the raw data is inputted once and all of the tinkering needed is already in place and ready. However, I'm stuck...
I've got a load of cells that show the date a call was created, in a date format, for example 21/11/2016 (Cell G2). I want to have a cell that shows the number of calls that have been raised within the previous month. I already have a pivot table that shows all of the calls that are currently open for all departments with varying dates that were created over the last 12 months, so I want to show, of those, how many were raised in the specified month.
I’ve created a workaround by having a separate column with this formula in =TEXT(G2,"MMM-YYYY") which gave me the date in a different format ‘Nov-2016’ (in cell H2) with the goal that I could then have the date inputted on the front page of the dashboard for the previous month of Nov-2016 and find a way to match them up. The workaround was completed by having yet another column looking at the column above with this formula in =IF(H2="Nov-2016",1,0)
However, this means inputting “Nov-2016” into the formula next to one of the pivot tables, which is a lot of effort for my inputter to do and could be easily forgotten which would skew the stats! I’ve tried changing the Nov 2016 bit of the formula to point to the cell that I want it to look at, eg. =IF(H2=K1,1,0) but that came back with 0 even though it should have come back with a true result.
Any ideas? Functions such as SEARCH, MATCH, etc don’t seem to be helping although I might be using them wrong, or overcomplicated this whole thing!
 

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What is actually in K1? If you select it and look at the formula bar, does it perhaps actually show the 1st of November?
 
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Is that actually what it shows in the formula bar when you select K1?
 
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So "Nov 2016" and not "Nov-2016"?
 
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