If A1 contains a date, then in A2 enter:

=DATE(YEAR(A1)-1,MONTH(A1),DAY(A1)) and copy down

just be careful of Feb and leap years.
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200857


"Munchkin" wrote:

Is there any way to copy a full date (mm/dd/yyyy), past it into the cells
below, but have the year change to the prior year in descending order?

Specific info: B4 shows the current mm/dd/yyyy of a file. Depending on how
many years we have had this account we want B5 through B?? to show same
mm/dd, but prior yy in descending order.

Right now we are copying B4 & pasting in the rows below, then manually
changing the year in each cell - is there an easier to do this?

Thanks much!