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In Excel, how can I create an IF statement to return a value or text IF a
DATE is after or before another date? It doesn't seem to recognize dates and is returning all the same value in the current IF statement I've created. I'm not sure if it has something to do with formatting but I've changed the formats to Dates, General, Text, etc and the IF statement still doesn't work........ |
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With Excel dates in A1 and B1 (note: not text items that look like
dates), try this in C1: =IF(A1B1,"A1 after B1",IF(B1A1,"A1 before B1","same dates")) Hope this helps. Pete On May 3, 4:43 pm, wiggledg wrote: In Excel, how can I create an IF statement to return a value or text IF a DATE is after or before another date? It doesn't seem to recognize dates and is returning all the same value in the current IF statement I've created. I'm not sure if it has something to do with formatting but I've changed the formats to Dates, General, Text, etc and the IF statement still doesn't work........ |
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And make sure that ToolsOptionsCalculation is set to "Automatic"
Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On 3 May 2007 08:54:24 -0700, Pete_UK wrote: With Excel dates in A1 and B1 (note: not text items that look like dates), try this in C1: =IF(A1B1,"A1 after B1",IF(B1A1,"A1 before B1","same dates")) Hope this helps. Pete On May 3, 4:43 pm, wiggledg wrote: In Excel, how can I create an IF statement to return a value or text IF a DATE is after or before another date? It doesn't seem to recognize dates and is returning all the same value in the current IF statement I've created. I'm not sure if it has something to do with formatting but I've changed the formats to Dates, General, Text, etc and the IF statement still doesn't work........ |
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Thanks, I'm not sure why a date can't be hard coded into the formula, but it
works now that I have the formula targeted to a cell. Thanks again!!! "Pete_UK" wrote: With Excel dates in A1 and B1 (note: not text items that look like dates), try this in C1: =IF(A1B1,"A1 after B1",IF(B1A1,"A1 before B1","same dates")) Hope this helps. Pete On May 3, 4:43 pm, wiggledg wrote: In Excel, how can I create an IF statement to return a value or text IF a DATE is after or before another date? It doesn't seem to recognize dates and is returning all the same value in the current IF statement I've created. I'm not sure if it has something to do with formatting but I've changed the formats to Dates, General, Text, etc and the IF statement still doesn't work........ |
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You could use DATEVALUE("1/1/2007") instead of one of the cell
references to hardcode a date in the formula and to allow it to be understood more easily, but isn't it easier to refer to a cell that contains the date? Hope this helps. Pete On May 3, 10:26 pm, wiggledg wrote: Thanks, I'm not sure why a date can't be hard coded into the formula, but it works now that I have the formula targeted to a cell. Thanks again!!! "Pete_UK" wrote: With Excel dates in A1 and B1 (note: not text items that look like dates), try this in C1: =IF(A1B1,"A1 after B1",IF(B1A1,"A1 before B1","same dates")) Hope this helps. Pete On May 3, 4:43 pm, wiggledg wrote: In Excel, how can I create an IF statement to return a value or text IF a DATE is after or before another date? It doesn't seem to recognize dates and is returning all the same value in the current IF statement I've created. I'm not sure if it has something to do with formatting but I've changed the formats to Dates, General, Text, etc and the IF statement still doesn't work........- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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I'd use =date() to make sure the date was unambiguous.
=if(date(2007,12,25)a1, ... (I'm not sure why you'd hardcode both dates in the cell, though.) wiggledg wrote: Thanks, I'm not sure why a date can't be hard coded into the formula, but it works now that I have the formula targeted to a cell. Thanks again!!! "Pete_UK" wrote: With Excel dates in A1 and B1 (note: not text items that look like dates), try this in C1: =IF(A1B1,"A1 after B1",IF(B1A1,"A1 before B1","same dates")) Hope this helps. Pete On May 3, 4:43 pm, wiggledg wrote: In Excel, how can I create an IF statement to return a value or text IF a DATE is after or before another date? It doesn't seem to recognize dates and is returning all the same value in the current IF statement I've created. I'm not sure if it has something to do with formatting but I've changed the formats to Dates, General, Text, etc and the IF statement still doesn't work........ -- Dave Peterson |
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