Hi everyone

I have two colums with dates in and I want to subtract one from the other so
so I can get hte dumber of days between the two, this is the east part. The
problem I have is when one of the colums is blank I want to use todays date
so I can avoid #VALUE! being returned, I been reading a looking up posts here
for the best part of two hours and can not find the answer, can anyone help
me please?

Many thanks
Martyn

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:31:12 -0700, Martyn
wrote:

Hi everyone

I have two colums with dates in and I want to subtract one from the other so
so I can get hte dumber of days between the two, this is the east part. The
problem I have is when one of the colums is blank I want to use todays date
so I can avoid #VALUE! being returned, I been reading a looking up posts here
for the best part of two hours and can not find the answer, can anyone help
me please?

Many thanks
Martyn


Try this:

Replace B1 with IF(ISBLANK(B1),TODAY(),B1)

To get the number of days between two dates you just have to subtract
them.

=IF(ISBLANK(B1),TODAY(),B1)-IF(ISBLANK(A1),TODAY(),A1)

Hope this helps / Lars-Åke

If you really want to use today's date then use:

=A1-(MAX(TODAY(),B1))

or:

=MAX(A1,TODAY())-B1

depending of which date will be blank or:

=IF(COUNT(A16:B16)<2,"",A16-B16)

to only calculte when there are two dates showing.

--
HTH

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings


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"Martyn" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone

I have two colums with dates in and I want to subtract one from the other
so
so I can get hte dumber of days between the two, this is the east part.
The
problem I have is when one of the colums is blank I want to use todays
date
so I can avoid #VALUE! being returned, I been reading a looking up posts
here
for the best part of two hours and can not find the answer, can anyone
help
me please?

Many thanks
Martyn