I have searched and tried different things but I just can't seem to make this formula work. Background on what I am trying to achieve:
There are two dates in play here,
Application date (cell B5) 'which everyone has
and
Retirement date (cell F6) 'which only some people have, provided they have retired
If there is no retirement date, return nothing (works)
If the difference between F6 and B5 is greater than or equal to 15 months, display RTR>15 (works).
Otherwise display nothing even if the difference is negative (gives #NUM value in the cell when date difference is less than 15).
Formula I used:
=IF(F6="","",IF(DATEDIF(F6,B5,"m")>=15,"RTR>15",""))
It all works except when the difference between the two dates is less than 15 then it displays #NUM in the cell in red. So I am assuming I need to have a condition in there to handle negative values? but how can I fix this?
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I am trying to find the minimum time for a fixed date between two different times.
Been trying out different variations but nothing works.
This is on excel 2016, I tried out yesterday with a similar code on a different spreadsheet (a test sheet I created) and it worked. Unfortunately it was on another laptop that I have no longer access to.
Tried out the same code on the sheet I am to use and it did not work.
{=MIN(IF((Date<=D5)*(Date>=D4);Time;"");IF((Time<=D7)*(Time>=D6);Time<""))}
{=MIN(IF(;IF((Time<=D7)*(Time>=D6);Time<""))}
D5 is the actual date I want to look at (line 1), since it did not work for my I tried out putting an earlier date in D4 but same result (line 2).
D7 and D6 is the end and start time I want to find the value between.
Tried naming the ranges so Date range refers to the dates (E2:E55220) and Time is the time range I want to find the minimum value in (C2:C55220).
Value I end up with on all attempts is 0
Alternative formula to the array. It should do the same thing:
=AGGREGATE(15,6,myTIME/((myDATE<=F4)*(myDATE>=F3)*(myTIME<=F6)*(myTIME>=F5)),1)
Now this formula works with the assumption that your dates are actual excel dates and not text looking like a date. Same goes for for time. You can test it with the following formula:
ISNUMBER(E2)
or
ISTEXT(E2)
Where E2 is a cell containing a date or a time. Excel stores dates as integers and times as decimals. IF your information is stored as text, it is probably easier to convert them first then trying to apply your formula con the converted results. you can convert withing your formula but it will tend to make the formula really ugly and long.
My spreadsheet is to show me how many days active a certain field has been.
For this I am trying to find a formula which will automatically take the entered date from one cell and deduct it from "todays" date.
As an example I have used =DATEVALUE("22/04/2017")-TODAY() - and although this works, i am unable to drag the formula down into other cells, to auto populate when a date has been entered/ amended. I'm having to enter the formula above every time, and if the date changes, as an example from the 22/04/2017 to the 20/04/2017, I would have to manually amend the formula too. How can I get it just pick up the date in that particular cell and deduct "today" from it?
Sorry if i'm rambling, I just don't know if I'm explaining myself properly.
Thank you
Typically, 'how many days active a certain field has been' would be a positive number (i.e. the number of days). Reverse the subtrahend and minuend to get a positive integer like this,
=today()-a3
To avoid getting 5/15/2017 or 42,870 as the result when A3 is blank, check to see if there is something in A3 before attempting subtraction.
=if(len(a3), today()-a3, text(,))
I'm trying to calculate the time between the dates , at the beginning the formula
was working fine but I've noticed that it does not work when the date is different
For example , I have the following information on cell A1: 09/15/2016 10:00 AM
On Cell B2 I have: 09/16/2016 10:00 AM
The formula is just B2-A1 but instead of giving me a result of 24 hours is just giving me 0 . I believe the formula is not recognizing that these are 2 different days and is just doing 10-10
Any idea how to fix this ?
I was able to get the result 24 by setting a custom format of [h] (you will have to type it into the 'Type:' box) on cell C1 while using the formula =B1-A1
Excel Reference
'Format Cells' view
The problem with just using =B1-A1 is that if either or both of those cells is not populated then you will get weird numbers in C1. You may want to make C1 display as a blank cell unless both boxes are populated, try something like this =IF(OR(ISBLANK(A1),ISBLANK(B1)),"",B1-A1)
The reason for the weird numbers is that Excel calculates time based on a predefined decimal system that indexes time starting at like 1/1/1900 or something like that. So when manipulating or calculating time, that is something that you always have to keep in the back of your mind.
Hope this helps.
Formation the destination cell to will do but since you have date and time combined it will show as 1 calendar day difference 0 only means that 12 am after the 1 day difference, I know it does not make any sense but its Excel...
If I was you, on column A, I would add the date, and on Column B, the time.
then just work with the time, as both combined can be tricky
Don't forget to format your cells!! (right click>Format Cells>Time>3/14/12 1:30 PM)
How I see it what I need is =countif(C:C,"datedif(12-09-2015,C:C,"d")>56")
My best guess is that within the datedif brackets I can't enter a date as C:C.
I keep getting an error message or a zero.
What I want to achieve is to have a monthly (1-30/31) table that shows how many people were working on that day that had been there for more than 56 days. So the end table would look something like this:
use array =SUM(IF()) instead of =COUNTIF()
Firs of all create an IF finction that return TRUE when your conditions are met:
in cell F2 put: =IF("20/09/2015"-C2:C12 > 56) and confirm with CTRL+Shift+enter to create an array formula
you should get: TRUE,TRUE,TRUE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE
once you know it works as intended, you can just wrap it in a single-cell sum. In cell G2 put: =SUM(IF("20/09/2015"-C2:C12 > 56)) and confirm with CTRL+Shift+enter. You will have a single cell this time, with a result of 3
This should be enough to get you started. In your case I suggest you store the "1,2,3,4,5..." day numbers in results sheet as dates, formatted to display just the day number, and then reference that directly in each countif
I am not sure if I am just over looking something, because I am still a very newbie to Excel's functions, so here comes the problem :
Lets say that I have A1 cell, and I want to display todays date in another cell whenever the A1 cell isn't empty.
So I came with this :
in another cell :
IF(A1<>"";TODAY();"")
Todays date is 16.8.2015, but when I run TODAY() through a condition like this, the output is : 42232
Why would I get this weird number ?
Maybe I did syntax wrong ? Not sure.. I also tried to make =TODAY() in new cell, that displayed the 16.8.2015, and then I wanted to show that cell through that condition, it threw the "42232" again.
Be sure that the cell format is Date and not General or Number.
The TODAY function returns a serial number which is equivalent to the amount of days since 1/1/1900. That is why you are seeing the number instead of the date.
Select the cell with the number and on the Home tab you can change the format to Date (See Below).
Every date in Excel is represented by a number. For example, the number 1 represents 1/1/1900. Whereas 42232 represents 8/16/2015.