I have to columns that are of type date. There is a third column that
I want to indicate, for each row, if the 1st column's date is more
recent (i.e. greater) than the second column's date. If that is true,
I want the text "Yes" to be entered in the third column for the row in
question. If it isn't true, I want there to be no text in the third
column for the row in question.

I've seen tons of date comparison posts here, but they are always using
actual cell identifiers (i.e. A20). I need a more generic function
that will work on the column. The requirement is when someone updates
any date in this spreadsheet that the third column cell will update
automatically. Is this possible in Excel?

Thanks!

based on what you said, let's say you have 3 columns
A1,B1,C1

this should be a simple if statement that goes something like this:
(insert in C1)

IF(B1A1,"Yes","")

hope this helps..
salah

Thanks for the reply. Yes, this would work as a function for cell C1.
What I need is a function that I can apply to the entire C column so I
just have to write one function. In other words, I don't want to write
this function in column C for every row that I have data. Is this
possible? In pseudocode, I am hoping I can create a function like:

IF(CurrentRowCell -1 CurrentRowCell - 2, "Yes", "")

and somehow assign this to the column. If this is possible, I might
need more robust code to deal with rows that don't have any data in
column A and/or column C.