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?

=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?

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?