On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:34:02 -0800, "Toys"
wrote:

I have a list of sequential dates in column A; let's 12/01/05 (Dec 01, 05) to
12/31/05. I want to use a conditional if statement to evaluate if the date
is less than a given day, for example: =IF(A1<12/15/05,"Less","Greater").
Therefore the first 14 should result in "Less" and the last 17 should result
in "Greater". My reslut is returning "Greater" for all of them. Any ideas
why? Two additional things: 1st, if I put the date in column B and then do
=IF(A1<B1,"Less","Greater") then it works fine, its only a problem when I
enter it manually. 2nd, this would be fine, but I'm trying to use a Macro
with an Input box where I enter the date (a variable) which slots into my If
statement. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

The problem is that, when parsing your IF statement, Excel does not know if you
mean a date, or if you mean 12 divided by 15 divided by 5. Since you have no
quote marks around your date representation, Excel assumes you mean the
arithmetic process and not a date.

Try:

A1<"12/15/05"

Most unambiguous would be

A1<DATE(2005,12,15)


--ron