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calculating due dates and february differences
I have a spreadsheet that takes a start date and calculates the date that a
recertification is due. There are 4 certification periods 90days, 90days, 60days and 60days. My current formula looks something like this B2=A1+89, C2=B2+90, D2=C2+60. This has been working fine except that Excel is considering February has 30 days vice 29, is there a way to fix this? Or to make the process simplier? Any help would be gratefully accepted. |
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Excel's calendar is correct (now) and takes into account leap years.
Do you use "real" Excel dates? -- Kind regards, Niek Otten Microsoft MVP - Excel " wrote in message ... |I have a spreadsheet that takes a start date and calculates the date that a | recertification is due. There are 4 certification periods 90days, 90days, | 60days and 60days. My current formula looks something like this B2=A1+89, | C2=B2+90, D2=C2+60. | | This has been working fine except that Excel is considering February has 30 | days vice 29, is there a way to fix this? | | Or to make the process simplier? | | Any help would be gratefully accepted. | |
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Excel knows the number of days in February for every year except 1900. So
unless you're dealing with that year, it's not an Excel problem. Are you perhaps using Days360 to add dates? That would cause February to have 30 days. Regards, Fred. " wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that takes a start date and calculates the date that a recertification is due. There are 4 certification periods 90days, 90days, 60days and 60days. My current formula looks something like this B2=A1+89, C2=B2+90, D2=C2+60. This has been working fine except that Excel is considering February has 30 days vice 29, is there a way to fix this? Or to make the process simplier? Any help would be gratefully accepted. |
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I am confused with the "real" excel dates... the user is typing in a date
such as 1/26/2008.. and they are using excel 2003 Thank you for any assistance. tdc1976 "Niek Otten" wrote: Excel's calendar is correct (now) and takes into account leap years. Do you use "real" Excel dates? -- Kind regards, Niek Otten Microsoft MVP - Excel " wrote in message ... |I have a spreadsheet that takes a start date and calculates the date that a | recertification is due. There are 4 certification periods 90days, 90days, | 60days and 60days. My current formula looks something like this B2=A1+89, | C2=B2+90, D2=C2+60. | | This has been working fine except that Excel is considering February has 30 | days vice 29, is there a way to fix this? | | Or to make the process simplier? | | Any help would be gratefully accepted. | |
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I don't think that it using days360 to add dates... as it stands the first
entry (ie A2) is entered as 1/26/2008 Thank you for any assistance. tdc1976 "Fred Smith" wrote: Excel knows the number of days in February for every year except 1900. So unless you're dealing with that year, it's not an Excel problem. Are you perhaps using Days360 to add dates? That would cause February to have 30 days. Regards, Fred. " wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that takes a start date and calculates the date that a recertification is due. There are 4 certification periods 90days, 90days, 60days and 60days. My current formula looks something like this B2=A1+89, C2=B2+90, D2=C2+60. This has been working fine except that Excel is considering February has 30 days vice 29, is there a way to fix this? Or to make the process simplier? Any help would be gratefully accepted. |
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It's time to end the guessing. "I think it's this" and "something like this"
won't help. Knowing will. Why don't you tell us the data and the formula? That's the only way we're going to be able to help you. Regards, Fred. "tdc1976" wrote in message ... I don't think that it using days360 to add dates... as it stands the first entry (ie A2) is entered as 1/26/2008 Thank you for any assistance. tdc1976 "Fred Smith" wrote: Excel knows the number of days in February for every year except 1900. So unless you're dealing with that year, it's not an Excel problem. Are you perhaps using Days360 to add dates? That would cause February to have 30 days. Regards, Fred. " wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that takes a start date and calculates the date that a recertification is due. There are 4 certification periods 90days, 90days, 60days and 60days. My current formula looks something like this B2=A1+89, C2=B2+90, D2=C2+60. This has been working fine except that Excel is considering February has 30 days vice 29, is there a way to fix this? Or to make the process simplier? Any help would be gratefully accepted. |
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The data is used to calculate the end of a certification period for medicare hospice, I am pasteing in the formula that we currently are using... Doe, John 1/1/2008 Doe, John =SUM(89,B1) Doe, John =SUM(90,B2) Doe, John =SUM(60,B3) I really appreciate any assistance that may be provided as I am self taught on excel and just need to ensure that we have the most accurate dates available. Thank you "Fred Smith" wrote: It's time to end the guessing. "I think it's this" and "something like this" won't help. Knowing will. Why don't you tell us the data and the formula? That's the only way we're going to be able to help you. Regards, Fred. "tdc1976" wrote in message ... I don't think that it using days360 to add dates... as it stands the first entry (ie A2) is entered as 1/26/2008 Thank you for any assistance. tdc1976 "Fred Smith" wrote: Excel knows the number of days in February for every year except 1900. So unless you're dealing with that year, it's not an Excel problem. Are you perhaps using Days360 to add dates? That would cause February to have 30 days. Regards, Fred. " wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that takes a start date and calculates the date that a recertification is due. There are 4 certification periods 90days, 90days, 60days and 60days. My current formula looks something like this B2=A1+89, C2=B2+90, D2=C2+60. This has been working fine except that Excel is considering February has 30 days vice 29, is there a way to fix this? Or to make the process simplier? Any help would be gratefully accepted. |
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You still aren't helping us to help you, as you haven't told us what answers
your formulae have returned, but there doesn't seem to be a problem and I don't know where you are getting the strange idea that anything is treating February as having 30 days.. Your SUM(89,B1) is returning 30/3/2008, I assume? Why dont you try the following formulae? =B1+1 =B1+30 =B1+31 =B1+59 =B1+60 =B1+89 Which of those gives you a different answer from what it ought to give? -- David Biddulph "tdc1976" wrote in message ... The data is used to calculate the end of a certification period for medicare hospice, I am pasteing in the formula that we currently are using... Doe, John 1/1/2008 Doe, John =SUM(89,B1) Doe, John =SUM(90,B2) Doe, John =SUM(60,B3) I really appreciate any assistance that may be provided as I am self taught on excel and just need to ensure that we have the most accurate dates available. Thank you "Fred Smith" wrote: It's time to end the guessing. "I think it's this" and "something like this" won't help. Knowing will. Why don't you tell us the data and the formula? That's the only way we're going to be able to help you. Regards, Fred. "tdc1976" wrote in message ... I don't think that it using days360 to add dates... as it stands the first entry (ie A2) is entered as 1/26/2008 Thank you for any assistance. tdc1976 "Fred Smith" wrote: Excel knows the number of days in February for every year except 1900. So unless you're dealing with that year, it's not an Excel problem. Are you perhaps using Days360 to add dates? That would cause February to have 30 days. Regards, Fred. " wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that takes a start date and calculates the date that a recertification is due. There are 4 certification periods 90days, 90days, 60days and 60days. My current formula looks something like this B2=A1+89, C2=B2+90, D2=C2+60. This has been working fine except that Excel is considering February has 30 days vice 29, is there a way to fix this? Or to make the process simplier? Any help would be gratefully accepted. |
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I would like to thank everyone for their help... I found out that another
user changed the location and therefore the formulae throughout the document... Thank you |
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