Dates in Excel
I want to use the "IF" function to allocate students to groups based on their
date of birth. I have tried doing this using the format IF(D2<1/9/1994,"Secondary","Primary") D2 is the cell with the first student's date of birth. I can't get the result I want, as all students come out as "primary" regardless of their date of birth, and even the first student was born in 1989. Can anybody help? |
Hi
Try =IF(D2<DATE(1994,9,1),"Secondary","Primary") When this doesn't work, check values in column D - are they really dates? Change cell format in column to numeric - when entries don't change to numbers, then they are datestrings instead of dates. Arvi Laanemets "Karen Saberi" <Karen wrote in message ... I want to use the "IF" function to allocate students to groups based on their date of birth. I have tried doing this using the format IF(D2<1/9/1994,"Secondary","Primary") D2 is the cell with the first student's date of birth. I can't get the result I want, as all students come out as "primary" regardless of their date of birth, and even the first student was born in 1989. Can anybody help? |
it seems correct to me....i tried it out myself and it works....somebody
please share your thoughts. "Karen Saberi" <Karen wrote in message ... I want to use the "IF" function to allocate students to groups based on their date of birth. I have tried doing this using the format IF(D2<1/9/1994,"Secondary","Primary") D2 is the cell with the first student's date of birth. I can't get the result I want, as all students come out as "primary" regardless of their date of birth, and even the first student was born in 1989. Can anybody help? |
Thanks Bob. Problem solved.
"Bob Phillips" wrote: =IF(D2<--"1994-09-01","Secondary","Primary") -- HTH Bob Phillips "Karen Saberi" <Karen wrote in message ... I want to use the "IF" function to allocate students to groups based on their date of birth. I have tried doing this using the format IF(D2<1/9/1994,"Secondary","Primary") D2 is the cell with the first student's date of birth. I can't get the result I want, as all students come out as "primary" regardless of their date of birth, and even the first student was born in 1989. Can anybody help? |
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