Dear All,
I have copied a simple formula (A1+1095) down the length of column B
(working with excel 2003). A1 contains a date, the formular in column B
produces a date 3 years later, with conditional formatting added to indicate
how close the future date is getting. The problem I have is that where there
is no date yet entered into a cell in column A, the remainder of column B
automatically displays 30/12/1902 and formats the cells red (for the rest of
the entire column). Is there a way to direct the formula in column B to only
become active once a date has been entered into the adjacent cell in column
A? - I was thinking along the lines of an IF statement or similar as I am
prohibitted from using a macro.
Advice gratefully recieved.
Simon.

Hi Simon

Modify the formula to

=IF(A1,A1+1095,"")

--
Jacob (MVP - Excel)


"Simon" wrote:

Dear All,
I have copied a simple formula (A1+1095) down the length of column B
(working with excel 2003). A1 contains a date, the formular in column B
produces a date 3 years later, with conditional formatting added to indicate
how close the future date is getting. The problem I have is that where there
is no date yet entered into a cell in column A, the remainder of column B
automatically displays 30/12/1902 and formats the cells red (for the rest of
the entire column). Is there a way to direct the formula in column B to only
become active once a date has been entered into the adjacent cell in column
A? - I was thinking along the lines of an IF statement or similar as I am
prohibitted from using a macro.
Advice gratefully recieved.
Simon.

Hi

=IF(A1="","",A1+1095)

Or
=IF(A1="","",DATEDIFF(YEAR(A1)+3,MONTH(A1),DAY(A1) )


Arvi Laanemets


"Simon" kirjutas sõnumis news:
...
Dear All,
I have copied a simple formula (A1+1095) down the length of column B
(working with excel 2003). A1 contains a date, the formular in column B
produces a date 3 years later, with conditional formatting added to
indicate
how close the future date is getting. The problem I have is that where
there
is no date yet entered into a cell in column A, the remainder of column B
automatically displays 30/12/1902 and formats the cells red (for the rest
of
the entire column). Is there a way to direct the formula in column B to
only
become active once a date has been entered into the adjacent cell in
column
A? - I was thinking along the lines of an IF statement or similar as I am
prohibitted from using a macro.
Advice gratefully recieved.
Simon.

Sorry, NOT Datediff!


=IF(A1="","",DATE(YEAR(A1)+3,MONTH(A1),DAY(A1))

"Arvi Laanemets" kirjutas sõnumis news:
...
Hi

=IF(A1="","",A1+1095)

Or
=IF(A1="","",DATEDIFF(YEAR(A1)+3,MONTH(A1),DAY(A1) )


Arvi Laanemets


"Simon" kirjutas sõnumis news:
...
Dear All,
I have copied a simple formula (A1+1095) down the length of column B
(working with excel 2003). A1 contains a date, the formular in column B
produces a date 3 years later, with conditional formatting added to
indicate
how close the future date is getting. The problem I have is that where
there
is no date yet entered into a cell in column A, the remainder of column B
automatically displays 30/12/1902 and formats the cells red (for the rest
of
the entire column). Is there a way to direct the formula in column B to
only
become active once a date has been entered into the adjacent cell in
column
A? - I was thinking along the lines of an IF statement or similar as I am
prohibitted from using a macro.
Advice gratefully recieved.
Simon.

Try this:

=IF(A1="","",A1+1095)

You may need to adjust your CF formula to avoid zero values.

Hope this helps.

Pete


On May 5, 11:50*am, Simon wrote:
Dear All,
I have copied a simple formula (A1+1095) down the length of column B
(working with excel 2003). A1 contains a date, the formular in column B
produces a date 3 years later, with conditional formatting added to indicate
how close the future date is getting. The problem I have is that where there
is no date yet entered into a cell in column A, the remainder of column B
automatically displays 30/12/1902 and formats the cells red (for the rest of
the entire column). Is there a way to direct the formula in column B to only
become active once a date has been entered into the adjacent cell in column
A? - I was thinking along the lines of an IF statement or similar as I am
prohibitted from using a macro.
Advice gratefully recieved.
Simon.