I hope you all are healthy during these strange times. I do have a question in regards to creating a date in excel. I am trying to auto populate the date based on the current date. First the date pops up, followed by the month and year under that (i.e. 4/9/2020 will populate as APR-20 underneath that)... Finally from the formula I used to create the specific date and year format (MMM-YY) I need to create another date with the same format but for the following month (i.e. APR-20 is the current month and year, but now also need the formula to show me MAY-20 (format MMM-YY). This is the formula I used in excel to create the current month and year. Thank you guys so much!
=UPPER(TEXT(A1,"MMM")&"-"&TEXT(A1,YY))
A1 = the current date of 4/9/2020
Thank you again!
Put this in A2 and copy down:
=UPPER(TEXT(EOMONTH($A$1,ROW(A1)-1),"MMM\-YY"))
You Can Perform this by EOMONTH function. It Returns the serial number for the last day of the month that is the indicated number of months before or after start date.
Syntax :
EOMONTH(start_date, months)
For more details you can check this link https://support.office.com/en-us/article/eomonth-function-7314ffa1-2bc9-4005-9d66-f49db127d628
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I have the results of a survey with birthdays in various date formattings.
01.01.1990
02/03
04.05 etc.
Every time Excel sees a day and a month without a year it implies the current year and puts it in the cell without any hesitation. So, when we try to extract a year, we get not the error we expected but the current year, which is nonsense.
How can we avoid this behaviour?
The desireable result is:
One column with one formula
If the year is written, we extract it using =YEAR()
If it is absent, we just do anything else, for instanse put "".
Basic change of formatting doesn't change the implication of the current year. And if we change the format of the whole column from date to text, we cannot use the formula "YEAR" anymore to any of the cells.
This is a task for students who can deal with Excel and Google Sheets only, Python is not an option.
I would be very grateful for any help!
Both Excel and Google Sheets stores date as a number (day count) starting from 1900/01/01 so it either assumes year for you or doesn't recognize it as date at all.
If you convert date to number, 1900/01/01 will be 1, 2023/01/16 will be 44942 (as it is 44942 day counting from 1900/01/01).
I assume that survey can't be filled by people born this year so just "filter" them out:
If date is in A1 use formula:
=IF(OR(YEAR(A1)=2023,YEAR(A1)=1900),"",YEAR(A1))
This will print nothing if captured year is 2023 or 1900 (this behavior also possible when dealing with dates without years).
I am trying to establish the best way to write a formula to take a date that is inputted in a cell by a user and subtract it from the last day of the month (the due date), not taking into account what year it is. The cell that contains the formula will be in another cell, pointing at the user inputted date cell.
I have 12 columns running across with each with one of the months of the calendar year. In each column for the corresponding month is where the user will input the date they completed a task. I would like to subtract their input from the last day of the corresponding month in that column. I want to reuse this spreadsheet every year, so I do not want to account for the year in my formula. I hope this will prevent me having to update the formulas each year.
An example would be if the user inputted 2/24/17 into C7, because the column C is the column for February, I would like the result to be -3 (I am not worried about leap years at this point). If they inputted 3/11/17 into the same cell (C7), they would get a result of 11, because the date is 11 days past the due date.
Here is the formula that I started to use, but I believe it is relative to the current year.
=IF(ISBLANK(C7),"",C7-(DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(1)+2,1)-1))
Here is a link to a picture of my spreadsheet. Thank you in advance for your help!
Solution
Changed YEAR(TODAY()) to YEAR(target cell). My new formula looks like:
=IF(ISBLANK(C7),"",C7-(DATE(YEAR(C7),MONTH(1)+2,1)-1))
Maybe:
=IF(C7="","",C7-EOMONTH(C7,-1))
(based on #barry houdini's Comment and subsequent OP clarification via a Comment).
This question is for educational purposes only, as I have already solved this problem in a way I dislike...
Sheet looks following and has rows for months, in each row there is a column for days that month and for current month
I have a formula that calculates how many days have passed this month or month that has passed which is used in some later calculations.
=TODAY()-DATE(2017,6,1)+1
Currently at the end of month I have to go and change formula to (as they go over 31 day in a month)
=DATE(2017,5,31)-DATE(2017,5,1)+1
What I would like to do is something like:
=MIN(TODAY(),DATE(2017,6,30))-DATE(2017,6,1)+1 to take whichever date is less, so I could do the formulas for the months in advance and not need to go back to it at the end of every month...
I can do it like =MIN(TODAY()-DATE(2017,6,1),DATE(2017,6,30)-DATE(2017,6,1))+1 but it looks somewhat not nice...
How do I compare two dates and take one that is smaller?
After a chat room discussion, it appears that one problem was the formatting of the results.
So =MIN(TODAY(),DATE(2017,6,30))-DATE(2017,6,1)+1 is sufficient
Excel stores dates as serial numbers with 1 = 1-Jan-1900.
If one wants to return a date, the cell containing the formula should be formatted as a date.
If one wants to return a numeric value, the cell containing the formula should be formatted as General or as a number with the appropriate number of decimals.
Excel does not always format the cell as desired by the user, so this may need to be edited.
Days passed for that month is nothing but the day. You can directly use the below formula, I believe.
=min(day(date(2017,6,30)), day(DATE(2017,6,4)))
if you want that as a date. Then you can include another date function to include month and year. If you just want the smaller date itself, then you can directly use the date itself in the min function
=min(date(2017,6,30), date(2017,6,4))
You have TODAY() function to get today date, you can get this month by MONTH function in excel.
TODAY() - DATE(2017, MONTH(TODAY()), 1) + 1
reference
If you want to know how many days have passed, can't you just use
=TODAY()-(EOMONTH(TODAY(),-1)+1)
I am trying to create an excel formula that will increment as the year changes. The following is what i am trying to do:
http://i58.tinypic.com/nbc1fc.jpg
I have 2 columns - date and id.
What i would like to do is increment the ID column by +1 when the year changes in the date column. So, dates from the same year will get the same id. (i am not concerned by the month/day values, all i need to do is assign the same id to dates from the same year).
I have tried a variety of formulas in excel but my excel skills are not great and i have been unable to find a solution. The best i could come up with is:
IF(YEAR(A1=1928),420) but that would be quite monotonous to do for every year in the excel file.
i did try to do a bit of research and the only similar question that i could find on here was this -->
Increment number when Date changes
Any help would be much appreciated
Please try, in say B2 assuming your data starts in A1:
=IF(YEAR(A2)=YEAR(A1),B1,B1+1)
and you have chose a value for B1. Copy down to suit.
Using excel, is it possible to specify the month to report in a cell?
For example, excel would need to report the latest reported sales, if its available. If the month of February sales is not available, then it will report January sales. Likewise, if March sales is available, it would report the sales in March.
How do you write this formulae in a cell in excel? If its not possible to write such a formuale, can we write a vba to do this?
If you mean you have a list of sales entries and want the sales for the last month in the data, you could write one formula to get the latest month. If months are in A you could write: =month(max(A1:A99999))
Note if you have multiple years data, you need to pull the year too or get bounding dates. You can then sum sales using an array formula like assuming the result of the first action is in D1 and sales are in B: {=sum(if(month(A1:A999999)=D1,B1:B999999,0))}
If you have incremental updates during the month, this will return month to date data. If you need data for the last full month, you can use another array formula to get the maximum month where the date is the last day of the month.
If the cells for future data in B1:B12 are blank then you just need to extract the last number in B1:B12 don't you? If so then try
=LOOKUP(9.99E+307,B1:B12)
You can use the OFFSET function to select specific data based on the month.
Insert a formula to calculate the current month (or just type in the month number)
=MONTH(TODAY())
The formula to select the current months of sales data
=SUM(OFFSET(B1,MONTH(TODAY()),0,1,1))
Have a look at the help in Excel on the OFFSET function. It can be used to select a range of data. For example, to return data from the start of the year to the current month the formula would be:
=SUM(OFFSET(B1,1,0,MONTH(TODAY()),1))
If the current month does not contain data yet, you can test to see if a value is returned and revert to the prior month if there is no data.
=IF(SUM(OFFSET(B1,B16,0,1,1))=0,SUM(OFFSET(B1,B16-1,0,1,1),SUM(OFFSET(B1,B16,0,1,1))))
I found this answer:
=IF(B12<>0,B12,IF(B11<>0,B11,IF(B10<>0,B10,IF(B9<>0,B9,IF(B8<>0,B8,IF(B7<>0,B7,IF(B6<>0,B6,IF(B5<>0,B5,IF(B4<>0,B4,IF(B3<>0,B3,IF(B2<>0,B2,IF(B1<>0,B1,0))))))))))))
This formulae solves the problem of picking up the latest available data.