Thanks; this is very helpful

"Ashish Mathur" wrote:

Hi,

Suppose the dates typed rightwards from C3 and then entry is like
1/1/2002,1/2/2002, 1/3/2002, 1/4/2002 and so on (till S3). In row 4, there
are numbers

In cell C8, enter =1/1/2003
In cell D8, enter
=INDEX($C$3:$S$4,2,MATCH(C8,C3:S3,0))/INDEX($C$3:$S$4,2,MATCH(DATE(YEAR(C8)-1,MONTH(C8),DAY(C8)),C3:S3,0))

This will give you the growth of 1/1/2003 over 1/1/2002

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Regards,

Ashish Mathur
Microsoft Excel MVP
www.ashishmathur.com

"renegade" wrote in message
...
I have laid out a table containing 50 data on a monthly for a period of 5
years. I intend to calculate growth rate calculated over the same period
in
different years.

So Row 1 contains: Jan-02, Feb-02, Mar-02, ...Jan-03, Feb-03, ...

So the growth rate I intend to calculate would be Jan-03/Jan-02,
Jan-04/Jan-03, Feb-03/Feb-02, and so on... Is there a function which could
locate and trigger the right data and then calculate? Thanks!