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Date fomula not working
And that is correct... A2 is your INPUT value (a date in THIS year)... if
you Format G2 as Date, the 39450 will turn into the same date as in A2, but for the previous year. A2 will NOT change... it is your INPUT value... G2 will change because it displays the result of the formula which operates on the value in A2. There is NO formula you can use to change the value in your INPUT cell (A2)... you either type into a cell or a formula creates a value in a cell... you cannot do both in a single cell. If that is, indeed, what you are trying to do (change the value of what you enter into A2), you will need to use a VB solution (but it is not recommended as you will have no traceable record of how the value got into the cell). -- Rick (MVP - Excel) "FangYR" wrote in message ... one more thing. 4) G2 reads 39450 -- Regards FangYR Malaysia "David Biddulph" wrote: You have been told more than once that if you want our help you need to tell us specific values. "didnt work" is not a sufficiently specific problem description to enable anyone other than a clairvoyant to tell you what you did wrong. You steadfastly refuse to provide the information which has been requested, so none of us can help you. We know that the formulae which we provide will work (and we have tested them), but you won't tell us what you have done, so we can't help you to sort out what mistake you have made. I'm sorry if I sound short-tempered, but this thread has been going on for a number of days with many people trying to help you, but getting nowhere because you will not provide the detailed diagnostic information which they would need if they were to help you. -- David Biddulph "FangYR" wrote in message ... Hi David, Sorry to say, your last formula didnt work either. -- Regards FangYR Malaysia "David Biddulph" wrote: Correction: =DATE(G$1,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)) -- David Biddulph David Biddulph wrote: If you want all your dates to be shifted to a specific year, put that year in G1, for example, and make your G2 formula =DATE(YEAR(G$1),MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)) FangYR wrote: Thanks all of you for the effort. As I have stated in the beginning, that formula works before. I am entering last year's bills as a record. So, I would like to type in A2 a date (ie 1/3) that will automatically appear as dd/mmm/2008 (in cell A2, B2, C2, etc.), instead of the current year. If I have to type the full date in column A (eg. 3/1/2008), then putting a formula in column G serves no purpose. Hope I am making it clearer this time. column A =date column G =formula Going to work now, see you all later. Cheers. - - Regards FangYR Malaysia "Rick Rothstein" wrote: That number makes more sense. 39085 is a "date" to Excel... it is the number of days since January 1, 1900. Format that cell as Date and the 39045 will change to 1/3/2007. Now, the reason for the 2007 instead of 2008 is because you are subtracting 2 from the YEAR(A2) value (hence 2 years prior) instead of subtracting 1 (to get last year). By the way, if you only want last years date (the formula I'm about to give you will only work to give last year's date), then give this much simpler (and more efficient) formula a try... =A2-365-(DAY(A2)DAY(A2-365)) It subtracts the 365 days in a normal year and if the day values between the date in A2 and the date 365 days earlier don't match, then a leap year was present, so it subtracts an additional day to skip over it. Note, you will probably still have to reformat the cell to Date after entering this formula as well. -- Rick (MVP - Excel) "FangYR" wrote in message ... Sorry, this one is correct type 1/3 in A2. 39085 appeared in G2. -- Regards FangYR Malaysia "Rick Rothstein" wrote: Telling us a result without telling us your input is meaningless... exactly what did you type into A2 to get that 693231 value? -- Rick (MVP - Excel) "FangYR" wrote in message ... In G2 , =DATE(YEAR(A2)-2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2))-(MONTH(DATE(YEAR(A2)-2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)))MONTH(A2)), number appeared, 693231. any idea? -- Regards FangYR Malaysia "David Biddulph" wrote: You'll need to tell us precisely what values you've got in which cells. If you use the formula =A2 and format as General, what number do you have? If you use the formula =G2 and format as General, what number do you have? -- David Biddulph "FangYR" wrote in message ... I place the formula in G2, format cell A2 as dd-mmm-yyyy. whatever date style I enter, the year is still "2009". It refuse to compute! Ai!!! -- Regards FangYR Malaysia "Max" wrote: .. in A2, I enter "1/3" (ie 3th Jan) and I expect A2 to read "3 Jan 2008", but "3 Jan 2009" appeared. well, that was precisely my point/sugegstion to you in my earlier response, A real date is a full valid, unambiguous date (day-month-year) recognized by Excel, eg: 01-Jan-2009. If you always practice entering dates as full dates, you won't get caught out with ambiguities such as what happened as you described. If you don't enter the date with the year in it - that's what you did, Excel will then assume the year is the current year (from the PC's clock), hence you get: "3 Jan 2009". You got "3 Jan 2008" previously because you entered it sometime last year (in 2008). Take my suggestion, never skimp on the data entry step when it comes to dates. Always enter it unambiguously in full, inclusive of the year, and use "mmm" format to denote the month as well in the date entry. -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 Downloads:23,000 Files:370 Subscribers:66 xdemechanik --- |
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