I'm putting business rules as validation criteria in a spreadsheet. These
cells contain dates and the rules a
1. The value in I7 is greater than H7
2. The month of I7 must be the same as H7
3. The year of I7 must be the same as H7
4. I7 can not be more than 21 years later then G7
Excel tells me there's an error in the following formula, which I can't
find:
=and((I7H7),month(I7)=month(H7),year(I7)=year(H7) ,i7(month(G7),day(G7),year(G7)+21))

Got any suggestions?

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:25:08 -0600, salgud
wrote:

I'm putting business rules as validation criteria in a spreadsheet. These
cells contain dates and the rules a
1. The value in I7 is greater than H7
2. The month of I7 must be the same as H7
3. The year of I7 must be the same as H7
4. I7 can not be more than 21 years later then G7
Excel tells me there's an error in the following formula, which I can't
find:
=and((I7H7),month(I7)=month(H7),year(I7)=year(H7 ),i7(month(G7),day(G7),year(G7)+21))

Got any suggestions?


Try this formula:

=AND((I7H7),MONTH(I7)=MONTH(H7),YEAR(I7)=YEAR(H7) ,I7<=DATE(YEAR(G7)+21,MONTH(G7),DAY(G7)))

Note the change from to <= in the last comparison.

Hope this helps / Lars-Åke

the 3rd MONTH has a bracket on the left without having a closing bracket


=AND( (I7H7) , _
MONTH(I7)=MONTH(H7) , _
YEAR(I7)=YEAR(H7) ,
_
this looks wrong I7 MONTH(G7), DAY(G7), YEAR(G7)+21)

as it is, the last part doesn't make sense

"salgud" wrote in message
.. .
I'm putting business rules as validation criteria in a spreadsheet. These
cells contain dates and the rules a
1. The value in I7 is greater than H7
2. The month of I7 must be the same as H7
3. The year of I7 must be the same as H7
4. I7 can not be more than 21 years later then G7
Excel tells me there's an error in the following formula, which I can't
find:

=and((I7H7),month(I7)=month(H7),year(I7)=year(H7) ,i7 (
month(G7),day(G7),year(G7)+21))

Got any suggestions?

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:25:08 -0600, salgud wrote:

I'm putting business rules as validation criteria in a spreadsheet. These
cells contain dates and the rules a
1. The value in I7 is greater than H7
2. The month of I7 must be the same as H7
3. The year of I7 must be the same as H7
4. I7 can not be more than 21 years later then G7
Excel tells me there's an error in the following formula, which I can't
find:
=and((I7H7),month(I7)=month(H7),year(I7)=year(H7) ,i7(month(G7),day(G7),year(G7)+21))

Got any suggestions?

Thanks to both of you for the help. Got it working great!