I am looking for a formula in Excel that will always show 4 days from the original due date and is always in the future from today's date.
Let's assume in this example that today's date is 4/4/2018. I would want the formula to let me know that I need to send a letter on the 6th.
Due date Time To Send Letter
3/1/2018 4/6/2018
When we pass 4/6/2018, then the Time To Send Letter cell will then show 4/10/2018.
When we pass 4/10/2018, then the Time To Send Letter cell will then show 4/14/2018.
When we pass 4/14/2018, then the Time To Send Letter cell will then show 4/18/2018.
use this formula:
=A2+4*(INT((TODAY()-A2)/4)+1)
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I have a cell G4 with date and time in a format (Text string):
1/29/2020 1:34:24 PM
I need to convert it to DATE formatted cell. How to do that?
I have tried to get numbers and convert them to DATE with this formula:
=DATE((MID(G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+4;SEARCH("/";G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+1)-SEARCH("/";G4)+2));(MID(G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+1;SEARCH("/";G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+1)-SEARCH("/";G4)-1));(LEFT(G4;FIND("/";G4;1)-1)))
So:
I am extracting year:
=MID(G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+4;SEARCH("/";G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+1)-SEARCH("/";G4)+2)
Month
=MID(G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+1;SEARCH("/";G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+1)-SEARCH("/";G4)-1)
Day
=LEFT(G4;FIND("/";G4;1)-1)
I am getting as a result:
1.5.2022
I need it as it is now, but output should be 29.1.2020 in this case. Later I want to get day difference two that way formatted dates. Is it possible to do it with formula without performing any other cell formatting operations?
EDIT:
I got it working, the only problem is:
How to extract number (year) after third "/"? My current formula is not correct:
=MID(G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+4;SEARCH("/";G4;SEARCH("/";G4)+1)-SEARCH("/";G4)+2)
It does not function correct in this case:
2/5/2020 12:21:05 PM
EDIT:
I did it this way (I also had to minus G2 - F2, to get days difference):
=IFERROR(DAYS(MID(G2;SEARCH("/";G2)+1;SEARCH("/";G2;SEARCH("/";G2)+1)-SEARCH("/";G2)-1)&"."&LEFT(G2;FIND("/";G2;1)-1)&"."&MID(G2;FIND("/";G2;FIND("/";G2)+1)+1;4);MID(F2;SEARCH("/";F2)+1;SEARCH("/";F2;SEARCH("/";F2)+1)-SEARCH("/";F2)-1)&"."&LEFT(F2;FIND("/";F2;1)-1)&"."&MID(F2;FIND("/";F2;FIND("/";F2)+1)+1;4));"")
You probably need to replace an order of day.month.year and "." to "/" if you are using different date setting (region). I have one setup, so this seems to work.
FYI DATES in excel are stored as integers. They represent the number of days since 1900/01/01 with that date being 1. TIME is stored as a decimal representing fractions of a day or 24 hours. 0.5 represents noon. 24:00 is not an officially supported time in excel, but will work with some functions.
The DATE Formula is looking for three arguments representing YEAR, MONTH, DAY in that order.
DATE(Year, Month, Day)
You need to pull the text from your string representing these values. I find it easiest to pull each one individually in its own cell to ensure the part of the formula is working first then copy and past that part into the DATE formula so the whole calculation in the end can be performed in one cell.
YEAR
To get the year use the following formula:
MID(G4,FIND("/",G4,FIND("/",G4)+1)+1,4)
MONTH
To get the month use the following formula:
LEFT(G4,FIND("/",G4)-1)
DAY
To get the day use the following formula:
MID(G4,FIND("/",G4)+1,FIND("/",G4,FIND("/",G4)+1)-FIND("/",G4)
COMBINED FORMULA
Place the above formulas into the date formula as follows:
=DATE(MID(G4,FIND("/",G4,FIND("/",G4)+1)+1,4),LEFT(G4,FIND("/",G4)-1),MID(G4,FIND("/",G4)+1,FIND("/",G4,FIND("/",G4)+1)-FIND("/",G4)-1))
Note the only cell reference in the formula is G4. The results of the formula are not in an Excel Date format. Change the formatting of your cell to meet your needs. In your case I would apply a custom cell format of d.m.yyyy
If you have TEXTJOIN,
=TEXTJOIN("/",TRUE,INDEX(FILTERXML("<a>,<b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(TEXT(A1,"dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss"),"/","</b><b>")," ","</b>",1)&"</a>","//b"),N(IF({1},{2,1,3}))))
Depending on your version it may need to be confirmed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter instead of Enter when exiting edit mode.
the reason the second did not work is that Excel actually changed it to a date and a date is a double, not text. So there are no / in the data. so we need to force back to the incorrect string.
Those for whom the TEXTJOIN function is not available can use this:
=DATE(FILTERXML("<DATA><A>" & SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1;"/";"</A><A>");" ";"</A><A>") & "</A></DATA>";"/DATA/A[3]");FILTERXML("<DATA><A>" & SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1;"/";"</A><A>");" ";"</A><A>") & "</A></DATA>";"/DATA/A[1]");FILTERXML("<DATA><A>" & SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1;"/";"</A><A>");" ";"</A><A>") & "</A></DATA>";"/DATA/A[2]"))
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 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.
How do I set a formula or VBA to get around this?
If Date Listed in Column A + (7 Days) Exceed 5th of Upcoming Month then Do Something.
Its like 5th of Each Month is Deadline.
If Column A = 30th March 2015 +(7days)left = 6th April 2015 then Column B = "HolyCrap" Else "You're Safe"
I would really appreciate some help on this.
Let's try this formula:
=IF(AND(DAY(A1+7)>5,DAY(A1+7)<13),"screwed","safe")
The date in A1 could be in either Date or Number format. You would get the correct Number format after pressing Ctrl+;.
Please test it and let me know if for some date it does not return the correct result.
You can use 3 different functions to achieve this in Excel: IF, TODAY and DAY360.
You need a column to calculate the present date. Use TODAY function for that.
You need a column to calculate the number of days difference between the two dates (that is, the present date and your target date). Use the DAYS360 function for that.
Then on the cell / Column you require to display whatever you want it to display use the IF function. It will help determine if the current date is over or under your specified value in days, and return whatever value you want displayed; overdue, expired, Yes, No etc. Example:
=IF(P2>30,"Expired","Active")
4/27/2009 is in a cell with a Date format. It says "4/27/2009" (w/out the quotes of course).
In another cell I've got "2:30 PM" (again, w/out the quotes). Its underlying function is =TIME(HOUR(P6),Q6,0) where the hour is HOUR(P6) where P6 is a Custom format m AM/PM, and the minute is taken off a number formatted Q6, and I'm not concerned with secs., and the cell it resides in is formatted as Custom h:mm AM/PM.
Now how do I put them together in a third cell as "4/27/2009 2:30 PM" (w/out quotes of course) so that I can take a similarly constructed second value and be able to subtract one from the other and get a number of hours (nevermind minutes but I'll take those too)?
Thank you for any help.
Putting a formula in the third cell that adds the date cell and time cell should work. (A3=A1+A2). To calculate the difference you can use a subtraction (unsure) or a combination of TIME and the DATEDIF function.