=IF(D2<--"1994-09-01","Secondary","Primary")

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HTH

Bob Phillips

"Karen Saberi" <Karen wrote in message
...
I want to use the "IF" function to allocate students to groups based on
their
date of birth. I have tried doing this using the format

IF(D2<1/9/1994,"Secondary","Primary")

D2 is the cell with the first student's date of birth. I can't get the
result I want, as all students come out as "primary" regardless of their
date
of birth, and even the first student was born in 1989.

Can anybody help?