hi,
if your dates looked like this
columnA ColumnB columnC columnD
Row1 due date accual day today statuss
row2 1/8/2008 1/3/2008 1/4/2008 Closed
Row3 1/3/2008 1/4/2008 overdue
row 4 1/5/2008 1/4/2008 inprocess

use this formula.
=IF(B40,"Closed",IF(NOW()A4,"overdue","inprocess "))

regards
FST1


" wrote:

Hi All,

I have some date information, headings are Due Date, Actual Date
Returned, and Date Today.
I would like to use a formula to give the correct responses such as
Closed, In progress and Overdue.
If the actual date returned is filled in, I would like excel to return
"Closed", however if the actual date returned cell is empty, I would
like excel to check if the due date is less than Today and return
Overdue, or In progress if the date is in the future.

Is this possible?