Bart,

AND, MAX, and IF are English language functions, and should return that error if they are called
something else in your specific version.

Also, you need to be using the A1 style of cell referencing...

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Bart" wrote in message
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Bernie,

true, we use semi-colon to seperate. Now it doesn't give an error,
but comes up with #NAME?

Any idea what causes this formula result ?

Thanks,
Bart


On 31 jan, 14:56, "Bernie Deitrick" <deitbe @ consumer dot org wrote:
Bart,

Would you normally separate parts of a formula with a semi-colon? Depends on your regional
settings. Just change all the , to ; if that is your setting.

Also, it looks like you are going to have a lot of blank values for dates out. I would change
the
formula to

=IF(AND($B3<D$2,$C3<D$2),0,IF(AND($B3<=D$2,$C3=E$ 2),E$2-D$2,IF(AND($B3<=E$2,$C3=E$2),E$2-$B3,IF(AND($B3<=D$2,$C3<=E$2),MAX($C3-D$2+1,0),IF(AND($B3=D$2,$C3<=E$2),MAX($C3-$B3,0),0)))))

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

"Bart" wrote in message

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Bernie,

first of all, thanks for your efforts in trying to find a solution !

When I use the formula though, it comes up with an error. See hxxp://
members.home.nl/hoenb/SNAG-0024.jpg for details on the error.

Many thanks in advance for your tip on solving the error.

Bart

On 30 jan, 17:12, "Bernie Deitrick" <deitbe @ consumer dot org wrote:
Bart,

This solution assumes the following:

Your chasis numbers are in column A, starting in row 3, your entry dates are in column B,
starting
in row 3, and your exit dates are in column C, starting in row 3. In row 2, starting in
column
D,
you have the dates for the first of the month, for the time period that you are interested in:
Aug
1 06, Sep 1 06, etc. Format as custom mmmm yy to show just the month name and year, if you
like...

Then in cell D3, enter the formula

=IF(AND($B3<D$2,$C3<D$2),0,IF(AND($B3<=D$2,$C3=E$ 2),E$2-D$2,IF(AND($B3<=E$2,$C3=E$2),E$2-$B3,IF(AND($B3<=D$2,$C3<=E$2),$C3-D$2+1,IF(AND($B3=D$2,$C3<=E$2),$C3-$B3,0)))))

Watch the line wrapping....

Copy that formula down as far as you need (to match your data rows), then copy across to match
the
dates in row 3. You will get a table of the days for each month for each chasis number.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

"Bart" wrote in message

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Hi,

I have a sheet with collums for entry date and exit date used in a car-
compound. I also have a collumn for each month of the year.

What I am trying to do is let excel (VBA) calculate how many days a
car was on the compound in every month. This is a monthly/yearly
ocurring item to check the invoicing.

What I'd like to do is to pull data from our database into the excel
sheet, just the chassis number, entry date and exit date. I would
like to paste this in my excel, and then be presented with the amount
of days a car was on the compound in each month.

Is there any way to this ? I know that if it was a full month, it's
easy to do, but let's say it has an entry on 13.01.06 and an exit on
20.10.06 , then it becomes more complicated. Also the calculation has
to be performed on several thousand cars at once...

Any help ??