I will give you an example right away. I have dates in a column (F) as text in this format. Jan 31, 2014 12:55 PM PST
I can convert these to dates using DATEVALUE((LEFT(F5,12))),
But I want to do this conversion on the fly when I am using this range as an argument for a countif function:
=COUNTIF(Dates!$F:$F,">"&DATE(1,1,2014))
:this obviously doesn't work since I have the date as text in that column
Let's say I converted these dates in another column G using DATEVALUE((LEFT(F5,12))),
=COUNTIF(Dates!$G:$G,">"&DATE(1,1,2014))
:Now this would work
But I want something like (which doesn't work)
=COUNTIF(DATEVALUE(LEFT(Dates!$F:$F,12)),">"&DATE(1,1,2014))
Is it possible at all?
The following will work:
=SUM(IF(DATEVALUE(LEFT(F:F,12)) > DATE(1,1,2014),1,0))
entered as a "array formula" (using ctrl-shift-enter).
You can't do that with COUNTIF because the first argument of COUNTIF must be a range (and using your DATEVALUE function will give an "array"). You can use SUMPRODUCT - I recommend restricting the range rather than using the whole column, e.g.
=SUMPRODUCT((DATEVALUE(LEFT(Dates!$F2:$F1000,12))>DATE(1,1,2014))+0)
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I have a series of dates and values:
8.12.2018 12
5.2.2019 32
15.7.2019 89
I would like to use something like (SUMIFS(YEAR(A1:A3);2018) but it's not allowed.
I know, I could extract the year in a separate column, but here I want to ask, if it's possible inside the sumifs function?
Although I thought you couldnt, it has proven by #forwardEd, you can alter criteria in such a way to use SUMIFS, however, you could also look into SUMPRODUCT for this exercize:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(YEAR(A1:A3)=2018),B1:B3)
Assuming your dates are valid excel dates and not dates as strings/text then you can use the SUMIFS formula for a year as follows:
=SUMIFS(B1:B3,A1:A3,">="&date(2018,01,01),A1:A3,"<="&date(2018,12,31))
Basically the formula is saying sum all the values in B1:B3 where the date in A1:A3 is greater than or equal to the first day of the year AND less than or equal to the last day of the year. I choose to write the date using the date function as it is easier to recognize than the integer format of the date. If you want to write just the year as a criteria in say cell c2 then replace 2018 in the above formula with c2.
UPDATE
I have not tested it but since the default for a date without time is 00:00:00 it would mean the formula above would cut off December 31 with almost any sort of time associated with it. Therefor the better cut off would be less than January 1st of the following year instead of less than or equal to December 31st. As such you could revise the above formula to:
=SUMIFS(B1:B3,A1:A3,">="&date(2018,01,01),A1:A3,"<"&date(2019,01,01))
or
Where C2 is the year as an integer
=SUMIFS(B1:B3,A1:A3,">="&date(C2,01,01),A1:A3,"<"&date(C2+1,01,01))
Alternative approach (a little bit less elegant solution, but might be more clear to less advanced users):
=SUMIFS(B1:B4,A1:A4,">="&"01/01/2018",A1:A4,"<="&"31/12/2018")
I'm having an trouble making an excel formula at the moment which would first search for the value by getting the year from the dates and then search another value from the sheet. Finally return the count.
Please, let me know how can I do this. I've been stuck at this a long time.
Right now i'm using this formula.
=COUNTIFS('Inc'!$F$2:$F$984,"YEAR('Incg'!$F$2:$F$984)=2017",'Incident Log'!$J$2:$J$984,$F9)`
You can't use YEAR() as an argument to COUNTIFS in this case, because its output is the numerical value 2017 whereas the value you want to use for your comparison is 42736, the internal representation of this year. A possible workaround is:
=COUNTIFS('Incident Log'!$F$2:$F$984,">="&DATE(2017,1,1),'Incident Log'!$F$2:$F$984,"<"&DATE(2018,1,1), ...)
This extracts the numerical date values of January 1 2017 and 2018, and checks whether each value lies between those dates.
If you do want to use YEAR() then you can use it with SUMPRODUCT, which was the usual way of solving problems like this before COUNTIFS became available.
=SUMPRODUCT(--(YEAR('Incident Log'!$F$2:$F$984)=2017),--('Incident Log'!$J$2:$J$984=$F9))
I received excel sheet with dates in column U as (Jul 8, 2009).
I changed cells format to custom date (mmm d, yyyy)
now in column V, I added below if statement
=IF(U9="";"No Date";IF(U9>TODAY();"warranty";"expired"))
my problem is: why all values returned as "warranty" what ever date in column U?
May 10, 2016.....warranty
Jul 8, 2011.........warranty
Jan 1, 2017........warranty
Jul 23, 2011........warranty
You need to turn on the automatic calculation:Options>Formulas>Workbook calculation>Automatic
Or you can turn it on in the formulas tab in the tool bar:
It sounds like the data in the sheet might be wrong - have you checked its value and compared this to the value of today? (use the value function on the cell is probably easiest)
There is a '1904' date setting deep in the bowels of the options (under advanced) which some systems use - whereby the dates started at a different point that Excels usual. This means that today would not match today - and the situation you are describing is possible.
The dates you received might have been formatted as Text. In that case changing the cell format won't convert it to date, and some formulas and expressions will regard it as text and not as a date value.
To verify this try to change the date format on one of the date cells that calculate incorrectly to some other date format or number, and you will see there is no effect.
One solution is to add the DATEVALUE() function to your formula:
=IF(U9="";"No Date";IF(DATEVALUE(U9)>TODAY();"warranty";"expired"))
This will work only if all of your dates are formatted as text.
Another solution is to run Text to Columns from the Data menu. This process has the side-effect of converting data types.
Select your dates column and run Text to Columns.
Choose Delimited and click Next.
Remove any selected Delimiters and click Next.
You may choose General or Date and click Finish.
After that your original formula should work correctly.
Addition:
It seems this is not a typical problem and it might have to do with the machine locale settings and date format recognition.
A possible workaround can be using this formula to retrieve the correct date value from a date text formatted as MMM d, yyyy:
=DATE(RIGHT(U9,4),
MATCH(LEFT(U9,3),
{"Jan","Feb","Mar","April","May","jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"}
,0),
NUMBERVALUE(MID(U9,5,2)))
For easy copy:
DATE(RIGHT(U9,4),MATCH(LEFT(U9,3),{"Jan","Feb","Mar","April","May","jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"},0),NUMBERVALUE(MID(U9,5,2)))
Replace the U9 part of your original formula with this formula.
I have dates within a cell using this format: (February 13 2014).
When I try to use "WEEKDAY(C2)" I get #VALUE!
I have no idea how to fix this and I need some help to finish this web scraping project. Any ideas?
The problem is that the date is a string, and not a real Excel date formatted as you show. The WEEKDAY function needs have a "real Excel date" as its argument, not a string.
If the apparent spaces between the date components are spaces, then the following formula should work:
=WEEKDAY(--SUBSTITUTE(C5," ",", ",2))
EDIT: As David Zemens just pointed out, the double unary seems to be unnecessary with the weekday function. So
=WEEKDAY(SUBSTITUTE(C5," ",", ",2))
should be a better solution.
If they are something else, the formula would be different, but the principal would be similar
Another method: You may be able to convert it to a "real date" by using the Text to columns wizard, but DON't split it on anything. (You can do that by selecting something like TAB as the delimiter; since there are not tabs, no splitting). When you get to step 3, merely check that it is a date in MDY format. That wizard is pretty smart. Then you can use the WEEKDAY function directly.
One way to do so... maybe not best since it involves adding so many rows
Add a fresh column D and E if not available..
Then use Text to Columns on Column C, with space as delimiter... (This will split column on spaces into 3 columns)
Add a new Column D with formula
=MONTH(C3&1)
Make sure new Column D is of type General or Number rather than Date
Then you can use the following formula
=DATE(F3,D3,E3)
Formula only:
=WEEKDAY(DATE(RIGHT(C2,4),MONTH(LEFT(C2,FIND(" ",C2)-1)&1),(MID(C2,FIND(" ",C2)+1,2))))
with thanks to #tgeery.
Your dates are not in the correct format.
WEEKDAY(DATE(2014,2,13))
should work because the argument for the weekday function needs to come from the DATE function.
I have a set of data that looks something like this:
11/8/12 5:20
11/7/12 15:57
11/7/12 13:51
11/7/12 10:47
11/7/12 8:00
Just in Excel, I want to be able to count the number of rows with 11/8/12, and the number of rows beginning in 11/7, etc. I have a pretty long list of dates and times, but I'm only interested in the dates.
I tried =COUNTIF(A1:A235, "<11/8/12 5:20") to get everything before 11/8, but obviously this doesn't work because I need to type in the time. Does anyone know how to:
1) make the timestamp irrelevant?
2) somehow search for rows that "contain" a certain date value and count up the rows that contain that value?
You can insert in a cell e.g. F7 the date which should be used
and then your formula will look like this
=COUNTIF(E8:E12;"<"&F7)
And then in case that your F7 will contain 11/7/12 14:00 the countif will return 3
NOTE: expecting the british date 11/7/12 is dd/mm/yy
EDIT: Date function
When I've seen another answer, I would like to show another approach, which is culture safe. Whenever we will put some strings representing dates, it could happen that a collague has different regional settings (e.g. British dd/mm/yy vs US mm/dd/yy)
That's why I placed the date into separated cell, representing the Date regardless of the culture. If that all have to be placed inside one cell, the correct approach is to use Date function
=COUNTIF(E8:E12;"<"&DATE(2012;7;11)+TIME(14;0;0))
In Excel dates are integers and the time is a fractional value so you can simply count between one date and the next (date +1) to get everything on a single date, e.g. for everything on 11/7
=COUNTIF(A1:A235, ">=11/7/12")-COUNTIF(A1:A235, ">="&"11/7/12"+1)
or in Excel 2007 or later you can use COUNTIFS
=COUNTIFS(A1:A235, ">=11/7/12",A1:A235,"<"&"11/7/12"+1)
for either one you can use a cell reference with the date as Radim suggests, i.e. with date in B1
=COUNTIFS(A$1:A$235,">="&B1,A$1:A$235,"<"&B1+1)
With that last version you can simply list all your dates in B1 down, and then use the formula in C1 copied down to get counts for each date