Shelf Life Percentage
 

I've been playing with this, but can't get it to work.

I have a product that has a 10 year shelf life. I'd like a spread sheet
that users can open that will calculate the percentage that is left, based
on "Today's date".

I've tried this.

A1 - 7-Jul-2000 (Entered as date)
A2 - 7-Jul-2010 (Entered as date)
A3 - =A2-A1" gives me 3652
A4 - =Today()

And now I'm stuck. Tried a few different things, but I'm getting further
away instead of closer.

Any and all help gratefully appreciated.

TIA
John

John,

A3 is the number of days in the 10 year period.

A2-A4 is the number of days remaining in the period so

=(A2-A4)/A3 formatted as percentage is what you are looking for.

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HTH

Sandy

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"John" wrote in message
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I've been playing with this, but can't get it to work.

I have a product that has a 10 year shelf life. I'd like a spread sheet
that users can open that will calculate the percentage that is left, based
on "Today's date".

I've tried this.

A1 - 7-Jul-2000 (Entered as date)
A2 - 7-Jul-2010 (Entered as date)
A3 - =A2-A1" gives me 3652
A4 - =Today()

And now I'm stuck. Tried a few different things, but I'm getting further
away instead of closer.

Any and all help gratefully appreciated.

TIA
John

try this

=IF(A1TODAY(),0,IF(TODAY()=A2,1,(TODAY()-A1)/(A2-A1)))

"John" wrote:

I've been playing with this, but can't get it to work.

I have a product that has a 10 year shelf life. I'd like a spread sheet
that users can open that will calculate the percentage that is left, based
on "Today's date".

I've tried this.

A1 - 7-Jul-2000 (Entered as date)
A2 - 7-Jul-2010 (Entered as date)
A3 - =A2-A1" gives me 3652
A4 - =Today()

And now I'm stuck. Tried a few different things, but I'm getting further
away instead of closer.

Any and all help gratefully appreciated.

TIA
John

WOOHOO!!

Thanks, that works like a charm.

John

"Sandy Mann" wrote in
:

John,

A3 is the number of days in the 10 year period.

A2-A4 is the number of days remaining in the period so

=(A2-A4)/A3 formatted as percentage is what you are looking for.

--
HTH

Sandy

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"John" wrote in message
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I've been playing with this, but can't get it to work.

I have a product that has a 10 year shelf life. I'd like a spread
sheet that users can open that will calculate the percentage that is
left, based on "Today's date".

I've tried this.

A1 - 7-Jul-2000 (Entered as date)
A2 - 7-Jul-2010 (Entered as date)
A3 - =A2-A1" gives me 3652
A4 - =Today()

And now I'm stuck. Tried a few different things, but I'm getting
further away instead of closer.

Any and all help gratefully appreciated.

TIA
John