need to add 18 months to a date

If you have the analysis toolpack add-in installed:
A1: your date
B1: =EDATE(A1,18)

If not
B1: =DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1)+18,DAY(A1))

The advantage of the EDATE function is if your day of the month is the 31st,
and 18 months later is not a 31 day month, it will return the end of month
for 18 months later. i.e: A1=08/31/08 then B1=02/28/10
OPT1: A1=08/31/08 then B1=02/28/10
OPT2: A1=08/31/08 then B1=03/03/10

Hope this helps!
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John C


"cdcam" wrote:

need to add 18 months to a date

John,

The advantage of the EDATE function is if your day of the month is the
31st,
and 18 months later is not a 31 day month, it will return the end of month

Your 2nd formula can be modified to return the last day of the month by
changing it to:

=MIN(DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1)+{18,19},DAY(A1)*{1,0} ))

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HTH

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"John C" <johnc@stateofdenial wrote in message
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If you have the analysis toolpack add-in installed:
A1: your date
B1: =EDATE(A1,18)

If not
B1: =DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1)+18,DAY(A1))

The advantage of the EDATE function is if your day of the month is the
31st,
and 18 months later is not a 31 day month, it will return the end of month
for 18 months later. i.e: A1=08/31/08 then B1=02/28/10
OPT1: A1=08/31/08 then B1=02/28/10
OPT2: A1=08/31/08 then B1=03/03/10

Hope this helps!
--
John C


"cdcam" wrote:

need to add 18 months to a date

So does this

=MIN(DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1)+{19,18},DAY(A1)*{0,1} ))

--
HTH

Bob

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"John C" <johnc@stateofdenial wrote in message
...
If you have the analysis toolpack add-in installed:
A1: your date
B1: =EDATE(A1,18)

If not
B1: =DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1)+18,DAY(A1))

The advantage of the EDATE function is if your day of the month is the
31st,
and 18 months later is not a 31 day month, it will return the end of month
for 18 months later. i.e: A1=08/31/08 then B1=02/28/10
OPT1: A1=08/31/08 then B1=02/28/10
OPT2: A1=08/31/08 then B1=03/03/10

Hope this helps!
--
John C


"cdcam" wrote:

need to add 18 months to a date