Sorry, hit the button too soon.

The MONTH(A1)/3 takes the month of the given date, and divides by 3 to give
a value of .33,.66 or 1 for the first three months, 1.33, 1.66 or 2 for the
second 3 months, etc.

CEILING(val,1) takes it up to the nearest integer, 1,2, etc.

CHOOSE then uses that value to pick from the comma delimited list.

Example,

A1 contains 20th October

MONTH(A1) = 10
MONTH(A1)/3 = 3.33
CEILING(MONTH(A1)/3),1) = 4
CHOOSE then picks the 4th value, Q4

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HTH

RP
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"Matt D Francis" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've been looking for this for a while, thank-you! Could yo explain how it
works please/ I'm not familar with the CHOOSE and CEILING functions.

Matt

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

The quarters are easy. If the date is in A1 then:

=CHOOSE(CEILING(MONTH(A1)/3,1),"Q1","Q2","Q3","Q4")

will give the correct quarter.

Gary''s Student